Bakhtiyar Artayev

Name: Bakhtiyar Artayev
Birth Name: Бахтияр Карипуллаевич Артаев
Hometown: Taraz (Zhambyl), Kazakhstan
Birthplace: Taraz (Zhambyl), Kazakhstan
Amateur Boxer: Record

Bakhityar Artayev (Born: March 14, 1983) of Kazakhstan won the Olympic Gold Medal at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, in the Welterweight (69 kg) class. Artayev was also awarded the Val Barker Trophy, as the outstanding boxer of the 2004 Olympic Games. He was a bronze medalist as a welterweight at the 2005 World amateur championships in Mianyang, China. He won another bronze medal as a middleweight in the 2007 competition in Chicago, United States.

Olympic results

2004

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

2008 (as a middleweight)

• Defeated Said Rachidi (Morocco) 8-2
• Defeated Matvey Korobov (Russia) 10-7
• Lost to James DeGale (Great Britain) 3-8

World amateur championships results

2003 (as a welterweight)

• Defeated Daniel Geale (Australia) 30-8
• Defeated Kim Jung-Joo (South Korea) 29-10
• Lost to Sherzod Husanov (Uzbekistan) 14-18

2005 (as a welterweight)

• Defeated Jean Carlos Prada (Venezuela) 33-11
• Defeated Spas Genov (Bulgaria) 25-17
• Defeated Miloud Ait Hammi (Morocco) 48-28
• Defeated Kahaber Zhvania (Georgia) 32-18
• Lost to Erislandy Lara (Cuba) 22-31 (semifinal)

2007 (as a middleweight)

• Defeated Georgi Nakani (Georgia) RSCI 2
• Defeated Cho Deok-Jin (South Korea) RSC 4
• Defeated Suriya Prasathinpimai (Thailand) 20-7
• Defeated Said Rachidi (Morocco) 19-11
• Lost to Alfonso Blanco (Venezuela) 7-15 (semifinal)