Egidijus Kavaliauskas
Egidijus Kavaliauskas (* June 29, 1988 in Kaunas ) is a Lithuanian welterweight boxer. Kavaliauskas was World Cup bronze medalist in 2011 and participants of the Olympic Games in 2008 and 2012.
Career
2006 Kavaliauskas first participated in the Lithuanian championships and was runner-up in the lightweight ( - 60kg). In the same year he started also participate at the Junior World Championships ( U19), where, however, he already left early.
At the 2007 World Championships difference Kavaliauskas, as well as at the European Championships the following year in the preliminary round of. In 2008 he was also the first time Lithuanian champion in the light welterweight ( 64kg - ) a success, he could repeat in the years 2009, 2010 and 2011.
Since Kavaliauskas had missed the Olympic qualifying at the 2007 World Cup, he took in 2008 to the two European Olympic Qualification Tournament in Pescara and Athens in part, in which he in Pescara in the semi-finals of Gyula Kate, Hungary ( 18:10 ) failed, however, in Athens the final reached whereby it for the 2008 Olympic Games qualifying in Beijing, where he retired but already in the first fight against Alexis Vastine, France ( 13:2 ).
At the 2009 World Championships Kavaliauskas reached after victories over Masatsugu Kawachi, Japan ( 8:5 ), Qalim Balla, Australia ( 20:5 ), and Zdenek Chladek, Czech Republic ( 10:6 ), the quarter-finals, which he, however, against the eventual runners-up Frankie Gomez, USA (RSC 3 ), prematurely lost and also at the European Championships in 2010, he failed early.
His first medal win could Kavaliauskas celebrate at the 2011 World Championships Welterweight ( 69kg - ) when he claimed victories over Maimatti Tusunqiong, China ( 20:16 ), Robert Bilik, Czech Republic ( ( 15:4 ), Roy Sheahan, Ireland ( 11: 7), and Fred Evans, Wales (RSC 2 ), and a semi-final defeat against Serik Säpijew, Kazakhstan (AB 2 ), won the bronze medal.
With this placement, he also qualified for the 2012 Olympics in London, where he, however, in the first fight against the local hero Fred Evans lost ( 11:7 ).