Tontcho Tontchev
Tontscho Dimitrov Tontschew; Bulgarian: Тончо Димитров Тончев; English transcription: Toncho Dimitrov Tonchev ( born December 1, 1972 in Sliven ) is a former Bulgarian boxer. Tontschew was bronze medalist at the European Championships in 1991 and silver medalist at the European Championships in 1996 and the Olympics in 1996.
Career
Amateur
Tontschew fought for the Boxabteilung of CSKA Sofia in international tournaments and major events. In April 1988, he reached flyweight at the 4th International Junior Tournament in Tampere, Finland the silver medal after he was inferior only in the finale Frank Sygmund from the GDR. In June of the same year, the bronze medal followed flyweight at the 7th Junior Trophy Italia in Santa Teresa Gallura. This time he had failed in the final against Markus Beyer.
In June 1989 he won the featherweight silver medal at the Junior 8 Trophy Italia, where he defeated in Spain and in the semifinals Tiziano Becci from Italy in the quarterfinals Juan Felicies. In the final he lost to János Petrovic from Hungary.
In August 1989 he took bantamweight at the Junior World Championships in Bayamón, where he defeated in the second round Paul Griffin of Ireland 4-1, but lost in the quarterfinals against Murat Kasenow from the Soviet Union 20:25. In July 1990 he won the featherweight with wins against Alan Vaughan from England and Mirko Kochan from Germany, the bronze medal at the European Junior Championships in Ústí nad Labem. In the semifinals, he had failed to Paata Gwasalia from the Soviet Union, where he was undergoing at the Junior World Championships in October of the same year in Lima.
Another bronze medal he won at lightweight at the European Championships in Gothenburg in May 1991, where he moved in 23:14 victories against Arthur Santana from the Netherlands and 35:21 Fared Cheklat from France to the semifinals, where he finally Airat Khamatow from the Soviet Union had to admit defeat. At the World Championships in November of the same year in Sydney, he lost to the Australians Justin Rowsell.
At the Olympic test event in Spain in February 1992 and at the European Olympic Qualification in France in March of the same year, he reached the third place in each lightweight. He defeated among others Smail Jakupi from Yugoslavia 23:4, Feyzullah Aydaş from Turkey 20:6 and Mark 10:5 Winters from Ireland. Thus, he was awarded a place at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where he moved 11:2 victories against Julio Gonzalez from Cuba 14:12 and Henry Kungsi from Papua New Guinea into the quarter- finals. There he met the American Oscar de la Hoya and subject to that 7:16.
In the Military World Championships in Aarhus in 1992, he won a bronze medal in the lightweight. After victories against Rafael Salas of Venezuela 15:5 and 11:4 Juha Temonen from Finland, he was beaten on points in the semifinals 5:11 Bruno Wartelle from France. In 1993 he competed at the European Championships in Bursa, winning the first round battle against the Russian Sergei Galikejew starter, but lost in the second round again Paata Gwasalia.
In March 1994, he was able to win by four wins in a row, the gold medal of the 13th Trofeo Italia at lightweight. Three months later he won the bronze medal in the lightweight at the World Cup in Bangkok. Even when chemistry Cup in Germany in March 1995, he won the bronze medal after semi-final defeat against Marco Rudolph.
In September 1995, he again won the bronze medal at the Military World Championships in Rome, where he narrowly defeated the Moroccans Kamal Marjouane 9:11 was eliminated in the semifinals. In February 1996, he won the gold medal at the 47th Strandja Memorial in Sofia, after hitting the starter from Turkey, the Netherlands, Georgia and Russia.
In April 1996, he participated in Vejle at lightweight in the European Championships. There he won in the first round against Jamie Coyle of Scotland ( Ko), in the second round against Sergei Ostroschapkin from Belarus ( 12:2 ), sat down in the quarterfinals against Koba Gogoladse from Georgia by ( 10:8 ) and reached the semifinals, where he the Italians defeated Christian Giantomassi ( 10:4 ). In the final battle he was defeated, although the early Romanians Leonard Doroftei, qualified with the second place, however, for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. There he was able to defeat prematurely from Moldova in the first round Octavian Tsicu, beat in the second round Denis Zimba from Zambia 17:9, in the quarterfinals Michael Strange from Canada 16:10 Terrance Cauthen in the semifinals of the U.S. 15:12. His final fight against Hocine Soltani from Algeria ended in a draw ( 3:3 ), but Soltani was declared by the officials through the guide points to the winner.
Then moved Tontschew turned professional.
Professional
1997 Tontschev turned pro and won his first 24 fights until 2001. He won the case " WBA Inter-Continental title ," the " WBC International title " and European titles in each of the EBU lightweight and defeated, among others, László Bognár, Kirkor Kirkorov and the former world featherweight champion Anatoly Alexandrov. In the same year lost Tontschew against the more unterklassigen Luis Alfonso Lizarraga by technical knockout in the sixth round after he had gone in the first round twice to the ground.
After another defeat in 2002 against Daniel Attah came Tontschews career not really get underway. Although he still won various titles, such as the world title of the rather insignificant association WBU, but suffered defeats again and again also. Among other things, he lost in 2005 against the eventual champions Sergey Gulyakevich and 2007 against the reigning European champion Yuri Romanov. After another defeat in 2007 to eventual champion and world title challenger from Amir Khan Paul McCloskey, Tontschew ended his career.