Bahodirjon Sultonov

Bahodirjon Sooltonov
Personal information
Full name Bakhodirdzhon Sultanov
Nationality  Uzbekistan
Born (1985-01-15) January 15, 1985
Height 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
Sport Boxing
Rated at Featherweight

Bahodirjon Sooltonov (Баходирджон Султанов; born January 15, 1985 in Andijan) is an Uzbekistani boxer who competed in the bantamweight (54 kg) division at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.

Career

At bantamweight he won bronze 2003 losing to Gennadi Kovalev. He qualified for the Athens Games by winning the gold medal at the 2004 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships in Puerto Princesa, Philippines. In the final he defeated Kyrgyzstan's Aybek Abdymomunov.

Sooltonov won the gold medal at featherweight at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha beating Olympuc silver medalist Kim Song Guk in the semifinal and Zorigtbaataryn Enkhzorig.

At the world championships 2007 he lost to eventual Russian winner Albert Selimov and didn't medal.

Olympic Results 2004

2004 (as a bantamweight)

Olympic Results 2008

World amateur championships results

2003 (as a bantamweight)

  • Defeated Ibrahim Aydogan (Turkey) RSCO 2
  • Defeated Waldemar Cucereanu (Romania) 21-10
  • Defeated Han Sung-Moon (South Korea) 37-19
  • Lost to Gennady Kovalev (Russia) 15-21 (placed third)

2005 (as a bantamweight)

2007 (as a featherweight)

  • Defeated Jesús Cuéllar (Argentina) 31-13
  • Defeated Han Song-Ryong (North Korea) 31-8
  • Lost to Albert Selimov (Russia) 9-24


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