Zou Shiming

Zhou Shiming ( Zou Shiming or even Zhou Shi Ming, born 18 May 1981 in Zunyi, Guizhou Province, China) is currently the most successful Chinese amateur boxer, two-time Olympic champion and world champion.

Career

Zhou boxing in the Flyweight ( up to 48 kg), the lowest weight class of amateur boxing. At the World Championship 2003 in Bangkok, he took second place. Although he was able to defeat the defending champion Yan BARTHELEMI, in the final he had, however, the Russians Sergei Kazakov beaten.

In 2004, he took on China at the Olympic Games in Athens in part, suggested the 17 -year U.S. hope Rau'shee Warren, but failed in the semifinals, this time on Cubans BARTHELEMI. The thus won bronze was the first medal in the Olympic boxing tournament winning a Chinese.

The following year he was Mianyang first with a comfortable final victory over the 18- year-old Hungarian Pál Bedak Chinese boxing champion. In 2006 he won in Doha and the Asian Games, four years earlier in Busan he was eliminated in the first round of the tournament. Other achievements are second places in the East Asia Games in 2001 and the 2004 Asian Championships

In 2007 he won in Chicago, each with clear victories against the Kazakhs Birschan Schaqypow, the Russians David Hajrapetjan, the Irishman Patrick Barnes, in the semi-final against Frenchman Nordine Oubaali and in the final against the Filipinos Harry Tañamor for the second time the World Cup.

With this success, he qualified at the same time for the 2008 Olympic Games. Zhou in Beijing confirmed its role as favorite for the Olympic gold and thus was also the first Chinese Olympic champion in boxing. In the first round he defeated Eduard Bermudez Salas from Venezuela and then in the second round had big problems with the Frenchman Nordine Oubaali against which he could only prevail happy with 3:3. In the quarter- finals of the hit the Kazakhs Schaqypow and in the semifinals again Patrick Barnes. In the final match he defeated the Mongols Pürewdordschiin Serdamba who gave up in the second round with professional of 1-0 for Zhou because of an injury.

In 2010 he won in the class up to 49 kg gold medal at the Asian Games with a final victory over Birschan Schaqypow.

At the 2011 World Championships Zhou Shiming occupied by defeating the Dominican Juan Gabriel Medina, the Hungarian Istvan Ungvari, the Filipino Mark Anthony Barriga, the Thais Kaew Pongprayoon, the Russians David Hajrapetjan and in the final against the South Korean Jong- Chun Shin the first place and thus qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

At the Olympic Games, he won after beating Yosvany Veitía, Cuba ( 14:11 ) Birschan Schaqypow, Kazakhstan, in the semifinals extremely scarce on Paddy Barnes, Ireland ( 15:15 ) and in the final over Pongprayoon Kaew, Thailand ( 13: 19), for the second time the gold medal in the light flyweight.