Oleksandr Hvozdyk

Oleksandr Hwosdyk (Ukrainian Олександр Гвоздик, English transcription Oleksandr Hvozdyk, . Born April 15, 1987 in Kharkiv, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) is a Ukrainian boxer. Hwosdyk won the Bronzemdedaille at the Summer Olympics in 2012.

Career

His first international championships contested Hwosdyk at the 2008 World Student Championships, which he was able to light heavyweight ( -81 kg ) starting win. The following year he was also the first time Ukrainian Champion, a title he successfully defended in 2010 and 2011. Also in 2009, he competed at the World Championships, but dropped out after wins over Nikolay Grisunins, Latvia ( 14:6 ), and Assane Faye, Senegal (RSC 3 ) in the second round just against Rene Krause, Germany ( 2:2 ), from.

2010 started Hwosdyk at the European Championships, but failed after a preliminary round victory already in the second round to Ainar Karlson, Estonia ( 8:5 ). Here he reached at the World Championships after victories over Jovan Young, Jamaica (RSC 1 ), Imre Szello, Hungary ( 25:11 ), and Ramil Aliyev, Azerbaijan ( 17:15), the quarter-finals, but which he later against the bronze medalist Yegor Mechonzew, Russia ( 27:21 ), lost and thus landed on the 5th place.

With this placement, Hwosdyk also qualified for the 2012 Olympics, where he won the bronze medal. Hwosdyk beating out in the first round Mikhail Dauhaliavets, Belarus ( 18:19 ), in the second round the silver medalist at the Central American Games Osman Bravo, Nicaragua ( 18:6 ), and in the quarter-finals the winner of the Pan-African Games in 2011 Abdelhafid Benchabla, Algeria ( 19:17 ) before the semi-finals just outside the World Cup of 2011 Second Ädilbek Nijasymbetow, Kazakhstan ( 13:13 ) failed.

2013 won Hwosdyk at the Universiade in Kazan.

World Series of Boxing

In the season 2011/2013 Hwosdyk for Dynamo Moscow competed in the World Series of Boxing. During the season, he played only two fights, but he won both. In the playoffs, he was employed both in the semifinals against the Astana Arlans, Hwosdyk suggested here Abdelhafid Benchabla, as well as in the final against Milano Thunder. With his victory over Imre Szello he won the single point of his team.

In the 2012/2013 season Hwosdyk moved to the Ukrainian Otamans. Again, his team reached the final, which he with two wins in the season against the representatives of the British Lionhearts and Italia Thunders and in the semifinal against Abdelhafid Benchebla of Italia Thunder, contributed. In the final he beat although Ehsan Rouzbahani of the Astana Arlans, so that the narrow defeat of his team, however, could not prevent.