Satoshi Shimizu

Satoshi Shimizu (Japanese清水 聡, Shimizu Satoshi, born March 13, 1986 in Okayama Prefecture ) in a Japanese boxer. Shimizu was a participant in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in the featherweight and bronze medalist of the Asian Championship 2009. At the 2012 Olympics he won the bronze medal in the bantamweight.

Career

The 1.79 m wide Shimizu in 2007 and 2009 Japanese champion and won the 2011 and the Japanese National Trials.

In 2007, Shimizu at the World Championships in Chicago in part, but different in the first fight against prematurely Maksat Ospanov, Kazakhstan (RSC 3 ), from. The following year, he participated in the Asian Olympic qualifying tournament in Bangkok and arrived after three wins the final, which he compared Bohodirion Sultanov, Uzbekistan (RSC 3 ), lost, and thus qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. At the Olympic Games Shimizu lost in the first fight against the eventual bronze medalist Yakup Kilic, Turkey ( 12:9 ).

At the Asia Championships 2009 in Zhuhai Shimizu won after beating Sanan Silva, Sri Lanka ( 13:6 ) and a semi-final defeat against Wuttichai Masuk, Thailand ( 9:2 ), the bronze medal in the featherweight ( 57kg - ). At the world championships in the same year in Milan, Shimizu injured shortly before the first fight and could not therefore compete.

2010 retired from Shimizu at the Asian Games in the quarterfinals against the South Koreans Ri Myong -Sun and at the World Championships the following year against Vittorio Parrinello, Italy ( 22:13 ), in the preliminary round. He failed to qualify for the 2012 Olympics. He tried it when Asian Olympiaqulifikationsturnier in Astana catch up and won after a semi-final defeat against Shiva Thapa, India ( 31:17 ) the third quota place for the Olympics.

There, he won the first round battle with barely 10:9 against Isaac Dogboe from Ghana. In the second round he met the Azerbaijani Magomed Abdulkhamidow. Although Shimizu six times had his opponent alone in the third round at the bottom, Abdulkhamidow was non-compliant for the count and eventually even declared the winner on points ( 22:17). After the protest of the Japanese team, the AIBA Weltboxverband aside the judgment and declared the winner by Shimizu superiority. Against the Turkmen referee and the Azerbaijani official AIBA allegations of bribery were heard; both were eventually suspended. Thus Shimizu was in the quarter-finals, where he defeated the Algerian Mohammed Amine Ouadahi 17:15. In the semifinals, he lost 11:20 against the Britons Luke Campbell and thus topped with a bronze medal from the Olympic Games from.