1995 World Amateur Boxing Championships
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The Men's 1995 World Amateur Boxing Championships
World Amateur Boxing Championships
The World Amateur Boxing Championships is a biennial amateur boxing competition organised by the International Boxing Association , which is the sport governing body. Alongside the Olympic boxing programme, it is the highest level of competition for the sport...

were held in the Deutschlandhalle
Deutschlandhalle
Deutschlandhalle is an arena in the Westend neighbourhood of Berlin, Germany. It was inaugurated on 29 November 1935 by Adolf Hitler. The building has been granted landmark status in 1995....

 in Berlin
Berlin
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, Germany
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 from May 4 to May 15. The eighth edition of this competition, held a year before the Summer Olympics
Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics
-Qualification:The following tournaments were used as qualification tournaments for boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.Africa* All-Africa Games in Harare, Zimbabwe from September 13 to September 23, 1995* Qualification Tournament in April/May? 1996...

 in Atlanta, Georgia
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, was organised by the world governing body for amateur boxing AIBA
International Boxing Association
The International Boxing Association is a for-profit organization that sanctions professional boxing matches and awards world and subordinate championships.- Origins :...

. These World Championships saw the introduction of 'seedings' in each weight. Those seedings were to be based on the 1994 AIBA ranking list.

Medal winners

Light Flyweight
(– 48 kilograms)
  Daniel Petrov
Daniel Petrov
Daniel Bozhilov Petrov is a Bulgarian boxer. He won a silver medal at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 and a gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 in the category Light Flyweight....


Bulgaria
  Bernard Inom
Bernard Inom
Bernard Inom is a retired boxer from France, who competed in the light flyweight division during the 1990s. He won the silver medal at the 1995 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Berlin, Germany, where he was defeated in the final by Bulgaria's Daniel Petrov.-References:...


France
  Hamid Berhili
Hamid Berhili
Hamid Berhili is a retired male boxer from Morocco, who twice competed for his North African country at the Summer Olympics: 1992 and 1996. He is best known for winning the bronze medal in the men's light flyweight division at the 1995 World Amateur Championships in Berlin, Germany.-References:*...


Morocco
  Juan Ramírez
Cuba
Flyweight
(– 51 kilograms)
  Zoltan Lunka
Zoltan Lunka
Zoltan Lunka was a professional boxer, who won a Flyweight bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics for Germany...


Germany
  Bulat Jumadilov
Bulat Jumadilov
Bulat Jumadilov is a Kazakh boxer who competed in the Men's Flyweight at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal. Four years earlier at the 1996 Summer Olympics he also captured the silver medal...


Kazakhstan
  Raúl Gonzáles
Raúl González (boxer)
Raúl González Sánchez is a male boxer from Cuba, who won the silver medal in the Men's Flyweight Division at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. In the final he lost to North Korea's Choi Chol-Su...


Cuba
  Joni Turunen
Finland
Bantamweight
(– 54 kilograms)
  Raimkul Malakhbekov
Raimkul Malakhbekov
Raimkul Khudoynazarovich Malakhbekov is one of highest titled boxers of Russia, who won two Olympic medals in the Men's Bantamweight category.- Biography :...


Russia
  Robert Ciba
Poland
  Dirk Krüger
Germany
  Artur Mikelyan
Armenia
Featherweight
(– 57 kilograms)
  Serafim Todorov
Serafim Todorov
Serafim Simeonov Todorov or Gogi Todoridze is a former Bulgarian/Georgian boxer who won the amateur world championship three times...


Bulgaria
  Noureddine Medjehoud
Algeria
  Vitas Bičiulaitis
Lithuania
  Falk Huste
Falk Huste
Falk Huste is a boxer from Germany, who won the bronze medal in the Men's Featherweight division at the 2000 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Tampere, Finland...


Germany
Lightweight
(– 60 kilograms)
  Leonard Doroftei
Leonard Doroftei
Leonard Dorin Doroftei is a Romanian-Canadian former boxer, the WBA Lightweight World Champion from 5 January 2002 to 24 October 2003.-Amateur highlights:...


Romania
  Bruno Wartelle
France
  Marco Rudolph
Marco Rudolph
Marco Rudolph was a German boxer, who won the Lightweight Silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics.- Professional career :...


Germany
  Pablo Rojas
Cuba
Light Welterweight
(– 63,5 kilograms)
  Héctor Vinent
Héctor Vinent
Héctor Vinent Cháron was a Cuban boxer, who won the Light Welterweight Gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1996 Summer Olympics.-External links:**...


Cuba
  Nurhan Süleymanoglu
Nurhan Süleymanoglu
Nurhan Süleymanoğlu is a boxer from Turkey.Participating at the 1996 Summer Olympics, he was stopped in the second round of the light welterweight division by Cuba's Héctor Vinent....


Turkey
  Radoslav Suslekov
Radoslav Suslekov
Radoslav Suslekov is a boxer from Bulgaria.He was born in Burgas. At the 1996 Summer Olympics he was stopped in the first round of the Light welterweight division by Iran's Babak Moghimi. Suslekov had won bronze medals in the same division earlier, at the 1995 World Amateur Boxing Championships...


Bulgaria
  Oktay Urkal
Oktay Urkal
Oktay Urkal is a Turkish-German former professional welterweight.-Amateur career:As an amateur, Urkal won the silver medal in the light welterweight division at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia...


Germany
Welterweight
(– 67 kilograms)
  Juan Hernández Sierra
Juan Hernández Sierra
Juan Hernández Sierra is a retired boxer from Cuba, who competed in the welterweight Juan Hernández Sierra (born March 16, 1969) is a retired boxer from Cuba, who competed in the welterweight Juan Hernández Sierra (born March 16, 1969) is a retired boxer from Cuba, who competed in the welterweight...


Cuba
  Oleg Saitov
Oleg Saitov
Oleg Elekpayevich Saitov is a Russian boxer. He studied journalism in Ryazan, a city of approximately one million people south of Moscow.He won the Olympic gold medal at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics in the welterweight division, and bronze medal in the 2004 Olympics. He was the winner of the...


Russia
  Nariman Atayev
Nariman Atayev
Nariman Atayev is a retired male boxer from Uzbekistan. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was stopped in the quarterfinals of the men's welterweight division by Puerto Rico's eventual bronze medalist Daniel Santos.-References:*...


Uzbekistan
  Andreas Otto
Germany
Light Middleweight
(– 71 kilograms)
  Francisc Vastag
Francisc Vastag
Francisc Vaştag was the first Romanian boxer to win the supreme belt in his category. His victory greatly stimulated boxing in Romania. The champion boxer Adrian Diaconu said that he considers Vaştag to be a brother and mentor.-References:**...


Romania
  Alfredo Duvergel
Alfredo Duvergel
Alfredo Duvergel is a Cuban boxer. He won the silver medal in the men's light middleweight category at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.-Career:...


Cuba
Slaviša Popovic
Yugoslavia
  Markus Beyer
Markus Beyer
Height 176 cmMarkus Beyer is a German boxer at super middleweight and the former WBC Champion, who resides in Lilienthal, Germany. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics, in the light middleweight division...


Germany
Middleweight
(– 75 kilograms)
  Ariel Hernández
Cuba
  Tomasz Borowski
Poland
  Mohamed Mesbahi
Morocco
  Dilshod Yarbekov
Dilshod Yarbekov
Dilshod Yarbekov is an Uzbek boxer, who has won medals at the Asian and World Championships in the middleweight category...


Uzbekistan
Light Heavyweight
(– 81 kilograms)
  Antonio Tarver
Antonio Tarver
Antonio Deon Tarver , nicknamed the "Magic Man", is a professional boxer from Orlando, Florida and the former WBC, WBA, IBF, & The Ring light heavyweight champion....


United States
  Dihosuany Vega
Cuba
  Thomas Ulrich
Thomas Ulrich
Thomas Ulrich is a German boxer.- Amateur career :Ulrich was the German Light Heavyweight Champion 1994...


Germany
  Vassili Jirov
Kazakhstan
Heavyweight
(– 91 kilograms)
  Félix Savón
Félix Savón
Félix Savón Fabre is a Cuban heavyweight boxer, a winner of three gold medals at the Olympic Games. Savón is considered a legend in amateur boxing and has won six world titles....


Cuba
  Luan Krasniqi
Luan Krasniqi
Luan Krasniqi is a professional German boxer of Kosovo Albanian descent.On April, 2006, he was ranked #2 by the WBO, coming before other heavyweight contenders such as Lamon Brewster, Shannon Briggs, and Ruslan Chagaev....


Germany
  Christophe Mendy
Christophe Mendy
Christophe Mendy is a retired boxer who competed for France in the heavyweight division during the 1990s. He won the bronze medal at the 1995 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Berlin, Germany, where he was defeated in the semifinals by Cuban legend Félix Savón...


France
  Sinan Samil Sam
Sinan Samil Sam
Sinan Şamil Sam is a German born Turkish heavyweight professional boxer. As a professional boxer, Sam won the EBU and WBC International titles in the heavyweight division.- Amateur career :...


Turkey
Super Heavyweight
(+ 91 kilograms)
  Alexei Lezin
Alexei Lezin
Alexei Vladimirovich Lezin was a Russian boxer, who won the Super Heavyweight bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics.Lezin never turned pro.- Amateur accomplishments :*1993 competed as a Heavyweight at the World Championships in Tampere, Finland...


Russia
  Vitali Klitschko
Vitali Klitschko
Vitaliy Volodymyrovych Klychko is a Ukrainian professional heavyweight boxer and the current WBC heavyweight champion. He is a leader of the political party Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform and a member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Congress of the Council of Europe. He previously...


Ukraine
  René Monse
René Monse
René Monse is a former German heavyweight boxer best known to win a bronze medal at the world championships 1995.-Amateur:...


Germany
  Lawrence Clay-Bey
United States

Medal table

1 4 2 3 9
2 2 1 0 3
3 2 0 1 3
4 2 0 0 2
5 1 1 7 9
6 0 1 1 2
0 1 1 2
8 0 1 0 1
0 1 0 1
10 0 0 2 2
0 0 2 2
12 0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1
Total 11 11 22 44

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