Kim Song-guk

Kim Song - guk (born 11 April 1984) is a former North Korean boxer. Kim was bronze medalist of the Asian Games in 2006 and the 2006 World Championships, silver medalist at the 2005 Asian Championships and the 2004 Olympic Games and Asian champions in 2007.

Career

His first international championship played Kim at the 2002 Asian Championships in Seremban. Featherweight ( -57 kg ) starting he left quarter-final against Suttisak Samaksaman, Thailand, from. Also the Asian Games in the same year ended for him in the preliminary round.

In 2004, Kim qualified by winning the second Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament in Guangzhou for the Olympic Games in Athens. At the games, he reached after beating Konstantin Kupatadze, Georgia ( 25:14 ), Muideen Ganiyu, Nigeria ( 32:11 ), and Vitali Tajbert, Germany ( 29:24 ) in the final. In this he faced the Russian Alexei Tishchenko, whom he defeated with 39:17 points, won the silver medal.

At the Asia Championships 2005 final, which he lost to Meharullah, Pakistan ( 35:16 ). In the same year he retired at the World Championships in the quarterfinals to eventual bronze medalist Yuriorkis Gamboa, Cuba, from. 2006 Kim won the bronze medal at the Asian Games and 2007 he was at lightweight (-60 kg) Asian champions. In the course of this tournament he suggested, inter alia, the winner of the Asian Games in 2006 Hu Qing, China ( 23:9 ), and the bronze medalist of the Asian Games in 2006 Bekzod Khidirov, Uzbekistan ( 17:4 ). In the same year he won after victories among others on the bronze medalist at the European Championships in 2006 Vazgen Safaryants, Belarus ( 19:18 ), and the winner of the South America Games 2006 Darley Perez, Colombia ( 23:6 ), and a semi-final defeat against Domenico Valentino, Italy ( 22:14 ), the bronze medal at the world Championships.

With this recent success, Kim also qualified for the 2008 Olympics, in which he, however, against the eventual silver medalist Daouda Sow, France ( 13:3 ) was eliminated.