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Kaspiysk

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) is a Russia

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n amateur Featherweight

Featherweight

Featherweight is a weight class division in the sport of boxing. There are similarly named divisions under several Mixed Martial Arts organizations and in Greco-Roman wrestling.-Professional boxing:...

 (125 lbs) boxer best known for winning the European championship 2006 and the World Championships 2007.

Career

At the 2006 European Championships he beat Stephen Smith

Stephen Smith (boxer)

Stephen Smith is a British professional boxer best known for being former British and Commonwealth Featherweight champion, and as an amateur won the featherweight division at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and a bronze medal at the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships...

 in the semis and Shahin Imranov

Shahin Imranov

Shahin Imranov is a boxer from Azerbaijan.best known to win two featherweight silver medals at European championships.-Career:...

 28:10 in the final.

At the 2007 World Championships southpaw counterpuncher Selimov beat American southpaw Raynell Williams

Raynell Williams

Raynell Williams is an American amateur boxer who won the featherweight national championships in 2007 and qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Career:...

 and won against Yakup Kılıç

Yakup Kilic

Yakup Kılıç is a Turkish boxer in the featherweight discipline. He is member of Istanbul Fenerbahçe Boxing Club.-Career:Kılıç participated at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería, Spain and won bronze medal...

 by walk-over to reach the finals. There he outlasted Ukrainian Vasyl Lomachenko

Vasyl Lomachenko

Vasyl Anatoliyovich Lomachenko is a Ukrainian amateur boxer who won the silver medal at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships, a gold medal at the 2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships and the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the featherweight division. Lomachenko is coached by...

, another southpaw. In the round one bout of the featherweight

Featherweight

Featherweight is a weight class division in the sport of boxing. There are similarly named divisions under several Mixed Martial Arts organizations and in Greco-Roman wrestling.-Professional boxing:...

 division at the 2008 Beijing Olympics Vasyl Lomachenko

Vasyl Lomachenko

Vasyl Anatoliyovich Lomachenko is a Ukrainian amateur boxer who won the silver medal at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships, a gold medal at the 2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships and the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the featherweight division. Lomachenko is coached by...

 finally got his revenge and outclassed world

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 amateur

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 champion

Champion

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 14-7 cutting short his dream for Olympic

Olympic Games

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 gold.

World Championships

2007 (featherweight)

• Defeated Iulian Stan (Romania) RSC-1
• Defeated Marcel Herfuth (Germany) PTS
• Defeated Bahodirjon Sooltonov
  Bahodirjon Sooltonov
  Bahodirjon Sooltonov is an Uzbekistani boxer who competed in the bantamweight division at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.-Career:...
  
   (Uzbekistan) 24-9
• Defeated Raynell Williams
  Raynell Williams
  Raynell Williams is an American amateur boxer who won the featherweight national championships in 2007 and qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Career:...
  
   (United States) 25-8
• Defeated Yakup Kılıç
  Yakup Kilic
  Yakup Kılıç is a Turkish boxer in the featherweight discipline. He is member of Istanbul Fenerbahçe Boxing Club.-Career:Kılıç participated at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería, Spain and won bronze medal...
  
   (Turkey) walk-over
• Defeated Vasyl Lomachenko
  Vasyl Lomachenko
  Vasyl Anatoliyovich Lomachenko is a Ukrainian amateur boxer who won the silver medal at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships, a gold medal at the 2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships and the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the featherweight division. Lomachenko is coached by...
  
   (Ukraine) 16-11

2009 (lightweight)

• Defeated Mohammad Aziz (Afghanistan) 25-1
• Defeated Erick Bonez (Ecuador) 18-0
• Defeated Sailom Ardee (Thailand) 14-8
• Defeated Éverton Lopes
  Everton Lopes
  Éverton dos Santos Lopes is a Brazilian amateur boxer best known to win the lightweight silver medal at the 2007 Pan American Games.-Career:...
  
   (Brazil) 17-2
• Lost to José Pedraza
  Jose Pedraza (boxer)
  José Pedraza González is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. As an amateur he represented Puerto Rico, winning medals in multiple international competitions...
  
   (Puerto Rico) 5-9

European Championships

2006 (featherweight)

• Defeated Sandor Racz (Hungary) RSCO-2
• Defeated Edgar Manukyan (Armenia) RSCO-2
• Defeated Stephen Smith
  Stephen Smith (boxer)
  Stephen Smith is a British professional boxer best known for being former British and Commonwealth Featherweight champion, and as an amateur won the featherweight division at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and a bronze medal at the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships...
  
   (England) RSCO-2
• Defeated Shahin Imranov
  Shahin Imranov
  Shahin Imranov is a boxer from Azerbaijan.best known to win two featherweight silver medals at European championships.-Career:...
  
  (Azerbaijan) 28-10

External links

• European Championships 2006