Rustam Saidov
Rustam Saidov; Cyrillic: Рустам Саидов, English transcription: Rustam Saidov ( born February 6, 1978 in Tashkent) is a former Uzbek amateur boxer in the super heavyweight division. He won the 1999, 2002, 2004 and 2007, the Asian Championships and the 2002 and 2006 Asian Games. His greatest successes were winning the bronze medal at the Summer Olympic Games in 2000, and the bronze medal at the World Championships in 2003.
Boxing career
In the 18th Asian Games in 1995 in the Uzbek capital Tashkent, he was defeated in the quarterfinals of the Iranian Bahman Azizpour.
In the 20th Asian Games in 1999, which were also held in Tashkent, he finally won the gold medal. He defeated it Mijiti Abuduxikeer from China, Ali Mansour from Lebanon and in the finale the Kazakhs Muchtarchan Dildabekow ( 8:7 ).
He then took part in the 27th Summer Olympic Games 2000 in Sydney, where he won the bronze medal. He defeated Ahmed Abdel Samad while the Egyptians 21:8 on points and Artur Binkowski from Canada by Ko, before this time in the semi-final against Muchtarchan Dildabekow on points subject to ( 22:28 ).
In June 2001, he started at the 11th World Cup in the Northern Ireland capital Belfast. He defeated the starting for the USA Francisco Palacios, before losing on points in the second fight against Cuban Odlanier Solís. In the took place in September the same year 5 Goodwill Games in Brisbane, Australia, he won the silver medal. He had there defeated the Cuban Pedro Carrión, however, was subsequently failed at the Russian Alexander Povetkin.
In the 21th Asian Games in June 2002 in Seremban (Malaysia), he again won the gold medal with a final victory against the Iranians Ali Rezaei. In October the same year, he also won the 14th Asian Games in Busan (South Korea). He defeated it Harpal Singh from India ( Ko), Muzaffar Iqbal of Pakistan ( Ko) and in the final again the Kazakhs Muchtarchan Dildabekow ( 29:21 ).
At the 12th World Championship 2003 in Bangkok ( Thailand), he won against Ahmet Aksu from Turkey and Marius Marcu in Romania before he points again after Alexander Povetkin defeated in the semifinals and thus won the bronze medal.
The 22 Asian Championships in Puerto Princesa in the Philippines in 2004, he won a final victory against the started for Tajikistan Siergiej Kharitonov. At the 28th Summer Olympic Games in Athens, however, was defeated in the first fight against Cuban Michel Lopez ( 13:18 ).
In the 23th Asian Games 2005 in Vietnam, he reached the second place after a final defeat against the Iranians Rohollah Hosseini. In the subsequent 13 World Championships in China, he lost in the quarterfinals to the Russian Roman Romanchuk. Previously, he defeated the Hungarian Csaba Kurtucz ( 44:19 ) and against the Finns Robert Helenius ( Ko).
In chemistry Cup in April 2006, he lost against Vyacheslav Hlaskow from Ukraine. In the 15th Asian Games in Qatar that same year, however, he again won the gold medal. He defeated Nurpais Torobekov from Kyrgyzstan, Jassem Delavary from Iran and Muchtarchan Dildabekow.
In the 24th Asian Games in June 2007 in Mongolia, he won the gold medal again. He defeated Rustam this Rygebayev from Kazakhstan ( 30:12 ), Ahmed Wattar from Syria ( Ko) and in the final Zhilei Zhang from China ( 14:3 ). At the 14th World Championship in November the same year in Chicago, he already lost his first fight against the Russian Magomed Abdusalamov.
2008 Saidov tried unsuccessfully to qualify for the Olympics at the Asian Olympic qualifying tournament in Astana again, as he in the semifinals at Ghosoun Sumar, Syria ( 9:6 ) failed.
In the following years he was seen at the international level, only at a single fight for Pyongyang in the World Series of Boxing season 2010/2011, however, which he lost by KO in the 3rd round against Magomedrasul Majidov and a tournament in Almaty 2011, in which he in the quarter-finals ahead of Ivan Dytschko, Kazakhstan (AB 1 ), failed.
Other international tournaments:
- February 2001: 2nd place at the " 52 Strandja Memorial " in Plovdiv, Bulgaria ( Final defeat against Alexei Lesin )
- February 2005: 1st place in the 43 " Beogradski Pobednik " in Belgrade, Serbia
- July 2006: 1st place in the "Green Hill Tournament" in Karachi, Pakistan
- February 2007: 1st place at the " 58th Strandja Memorial " in Plovdiv, Bulgaria (including wins over Roberto Cammarelle and David Price )
- April 2007: 1st place in the 29 "King 's Cup " in Bangkok, Thailand