Wilhelm Gratschow

Wilhelm Grachev ( born October 18, 1982 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan ) is a German amateur boxer and multiple German champion.

Life

The trained toolmaker boxing in the boxing league for the BCV Gifhorn. In the EU Championships in 2003 and 2005, he finished each one third place in the bantamweight. 2000, 2003, 2004, Grachev German champion in this weight class, 2005, he failed in the semifinals to Marcel Schneider, whom he had previously defeated in the finals. As of 2006, Grachev boxed at featherweight and defeated in the semifinals of the German Championships Marcel Meyerdiercks. 2007, he scored his fourth national championship, in 2008, he lost in the final battle against Sandro Schaer.

After his rival Marcel Herfurth was eliminated in the first round at the World Cup 2007 and thus did not qualify for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Grachev was given the opportunity to secure the European qualification tournament in Pescara a starting place for the Olympics. Grachev a train at the tournament in the semi-finals, but it lost to the Azerbaijanis Şahin İmranov clear with 0-17 points. However, since the third place also sufficient for qualification in this weight class and Grachev was able to prevail in the battle for third place against the British Stephen Smith, it still managed to secure a place in the Olympic boxing tournament.

On 11 August 2008 William Grachev then met in the first Olympic - round featherweight on the Tunisian Alaa Shili. The Tunisian clearly dominated the fight and so Grachev had beaten with a distinct point defeat 14-5 give and retired, as well as all the other three members of DBV, already in the first preliminary round of the Olympic boxing tournament from.