Bakhtiyar Artayev

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Bakhtiyar Artayev
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Personal information
Full nameБақтияр Ғарифоллаұлы Артаев
NationalityKazakh
Born (1983-03-14) 14 March 1983 (age 38)
Taraz, Jambyl Province
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
SportBoxing
Weight classWelterweight / Middleweight
Medal record
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens Welterweight
World Amateur Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2005 Mianyang Welterweight
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Chicago Middleweight
Asian Games
Silver medal – second place 2006 Doha Middleweight
Asian Championships
Silver medal – second place 2002 Seremban Welterweight

Bakhtiyar Karipullauly Artayev (Kazakh: Бақтияр Ғарифоллаұлы Артаев, Baqtiiar Ğarifollaūly Artaev; born 14 March 1983) is a Kazakh boxer who won the gold medal for Kazakhstan at the 2004 Summer Olympics.[1] He was also the winner of the Val Barker Trophy for the outstanding boxer of the 2004 Olympics. In recognition of his success, one of the Taraz sport centres was named after him. In 2012 he was appointed as a president of the Astana Presidential Sports Club.[2]

Career[]

Bakhtiyar Artayev was born in 1983 to a Muslim family in the city of Taraz, Kazakhstan. He is the son of Qaribullah (Karipulla) Artayev. Bakhtiyar won his first competition, a regional children's tournament, trained by Nurlan Akurpekov, who still coaches him today. Before the 2004 Summer Olympics he tended to play second fiddle in the Kazakhstan boxing team, fighting only in Kazakhstan amateur tournaments. Nevertheless, he participated in 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships, where he lost in the quarterfinals.

Before the 2004 Summer Olympics he had not been considered as a favourite in a welterweight division. He qualified for the Athens Games by ending up in first place in the 2nd AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Karachi, Pakistan. In the final he defeated Iran's . Surprisingly, in Athens he easily advanced into semi-finals where he defeated the two-time Olympic champion Oleg Saitov from Russia. In the final, Bakhtiyar defeated a Cuban boxer Lorenzo Aragon, who had not lost a bout for a year and a half.

Artayev won the bronze medal at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Mianyang, China and went up to middleweight.

Artayev's results are as follows:

2004 Summer Olympics:

  • Round of 32: Defeated (Cameroon) Wipeout points stoppage
  • Round of 16: Defeated Aliasker Bashirov (Turkmenistan) 33–23
  • Quarterfinals: Defeated Viktor Polyakov (Ukraine) RSC-3 (0:50)
  • Semifinals: Defeated Oleg Saitov (Russia) 20–18
  • Gold Medal Match: Defeated Lorenzo Aragon Armenteros (Cuba) 36–26

2007 World Championship:

  • Round of 64: Defeated RSCI R2 (1:43)
  • Round of 32: Defeated RSC R4 (0:55)
  • Round of 16: Defeated Prasathinphimai Suriya 20:7
  • Quarterfinals: Defeated Said Rachidi 19:11
  • Semifinals: Lost to Alfonso Blanco 7:15

2008 Summer Olympics:

  • Round of 32: Defeated Said Rachidi 8:2
  • Round of 16: Defeated Matvey Korobov 10:7
  • Quarterfinals: Lost to James Degale 3:8

References[]

  1. ^ Bakhtiyar Artayev sports-reference.com
  2. ^ President's sport club opened in Astana. tengrinews.kz. 24 December 2012
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