The 2008 World University Boxing Championships took place in Kazan, Russia between September 19-28, 2008. [1] The championship was staged in eleven weight categories. 94 boxers and 38 officials from 16 countries participated at the championship. [2]
Bronze medals are awarded to both losing semi-finalists.
| 2008 World University Boxing Championship | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weight | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |
| 48 kg |  Lenar Fayzeriev |  Adler Kapezov |  Gonzorig Saihanbayar |  Ferhat Pehlivan |
| 51 kg |  Elgun Ahmedov | Mazim Dvinskiy |  Alehandr Riscan | Kadri Kordel |
| 54 kg | Iles Kayumov | Iderhuu Enhzhargal | Ragim Nadjafov |  Dimitry Rudenko |
| 57 kg | Viktor Batalov | Kerem Gürgen | Zhaksylyk Ilyassov | Munhbataar Altansuh |
| 60 kg | Imil Iksanov | Idleyt Yegizekov | Muhammet Çat | Bat-Ochir Ayuurzana |
| 64 kg | Alexander Zhirnov | Anar Jafarov |  Anatoly Navichok | Almasbek Alibecov |
| 69 kg | Anton Pinchuk | Islam Edisultanov |  Martin Svoboda | Sergey Evstafyev |
| 75 kg | Vitaly Bandarenka | Alexander Vasilev | Dimitry Dragunov | Chuluuntumur Tumurhuyag |
| 81 kg | Oleksandr Gvozdyk | Daniyar Ustembayev | Bahram Muzaffer | Sergey Karnayev |
| 91 kg | Alexander Karakazyan | Vasily Levit | Caner Sayak | Viktor Chvarkov |
| +91 kg | Niyaz Faizullin | Doszhan Ospanov |  Marius Sperauskas | Ivan Bezverhy |
| 2008 World University Boxing Championship | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | |
| 1 | Russia | 7 | 3 | 10 | ||
| 2 | Kazakhstan | 1 | 5 | 2 | 8 | |
| 3 | Azerbaijan | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| 4 | Belarus | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 5 | Ukraine | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||
| 6 | Turkey | 1 | 5 | 6 | ||
| 7 | Mongolia | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 8 | Czech Republic | 1 | 1 | |||
| Lithuania | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Moldova | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 11 | 11 | 22 | 44 | ||
Lennox Claudius Lewis is a boxing commentator and former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2003. He is a three-time world heavyweight champion, a two-time lineal champion, and held the undisputed championship. Holding dual British and Canadian citizenship, Lewis represented Canada as an amateur at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics; in the latter, he won a gold medal in the super-heavyweight division.
The Ring is an American boxing magazine that was first published in 1922 as a boxing and wrestling magazine. As the sporting legitimacy of professional wrestling came more into question, The Ring shifted to becoming exclusively a boxing-oriented publication. The magazine is currently owned by Oscar De La Hoya's Golden Boy Enterprises division of Golden Boy Promotions, which acquired it in 2007. Ring began publishing annual ratings of boxers in 1924. With its November/December 2022 issue, the magazine stopped publication of its regular monthly print issues and will remain a digital publication, offering occasional special interest print issues.
Chess boxing, or chessboxing, is a hybrid sport that combines two traditional disciplines: chess and boxing. Two combatants play alternating rounds of blitz chess and boxing until one wins by checkmate or knockout. It is also possible to win by time penalty as in normal chess, and by boxing decision if there is a draw in the chess round.
Amateur boxing is the variant of boxing practiced in clubs and associations around the world, at the Olympic Games, Pan American Games and Commonwealth Games, as well as at the collegiate level.
Şemsi Yaralı is a world and European champion Turkish female boxer competing in the heavyweight division. She is a member of the Fenerbahçe SK in Istanbul, Turkey.
The Miami RedHawks are the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, United States. Miami is a member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) and sponsors teams in nine men's and ten women's NCAA sanctioned sports; the RedHawks hockey team is a member of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference. With sponsorship of men's swimming & diving transferring from the MAC to the Missouri Valley Conference in 2024–25, Miami will become a single-sport member of the latter. The football team competes in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), the highest level for college football. The RedHawks are arch-rivals with the Ohio Bobcats. In box scores for sporting events, the RedHawks sports teams are usually referred to as Miami (OH) to differentiate from the Miami Hurricanes, a Division I school in Florida.
Gülsüm Şeyma Tatar is a world and European champion Turkish female boxer. After having boxed seven years for the sports club Fenerbahçe Boxing in Istanbul, she transferred in 2010 to Birlikspor in Kayseri, Turkey.
Selma Yağcı is a Turkish female boxer competing in the cruiserweight division. She is a member of the Municipality club in Denizli, Turkey.
Abdelhafid Benchabla is an Algerian amateur boxer. He represented Algeria at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics and is the current World Series of Boxing Light heavyweight champion.
Roberto Cammarelle is an Italian amateur boxer, best known for winning the World Amateur Boxing Championships in 2007 (Chicago) and 2009 (Milan) as a super heavyweight and a gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. He won a silver medal in 2012 London Olympic Games, losing to Anthony Joshua.
The Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, also known as Balewadi Stadium, is a sports complex located in Pune, India. The complex is situated about 15 km from downtown Pune and 5 km from Hinjawadi. This complex was a venue for the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games, Khelo India Youth Games in 2019 and AFC Women's Asian Cup.
In combat sports where champions are determined by challenge, the lineal championship in a weight class represents an intangible world title first held by the victor of a bout between top contenders in the division.
A fighter who defeats the reigning champion in a match within the same weight class becomes the next lineal champion. In professional boxing, the lineal champion is informally known as "the man who beat the man."
Mangte Chungneijang "Mary" Kom is an Indian Olympic boxer, politician, and former Member of Rajya Sabha. She is the only woman to win the World Amateur Boxing Championship six times, the only female boxer to have won a medal in each one of the first seven World Championships, and the only boxer to win eight World Championship medals. Nicknamed Magnificent Mary, she was the only Indian female boxer to have qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she competed in the flyweight (51 kg) category and won a bronze medal. She had also been ranked as the world's No. 1 female light-flyweight by the International Boxing Association (amateur) (AIBA). She became the first Indian female boxer to win a gold medal in the Asian Games in 2014 at Incheon, South Korea and is the first Indian female boxer to win gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She is also the only boxer to become Asian Amateur Boxing Champion for a record six times. Mary Kom won the 51kg gold in President's Cup in Indonesia.
Shiva Thapa is an Indian boxer. Thapa participated in the 2012 London Olympics, and was the youngest Indian boxer to qualify for the Olympics. Thapa is ranked 3rd in the bantamweight category in the AIBA Men's World Ranking. He is the third Indian to clinch gold at the Asian Games. Thapa is the third Indian boxer to win a medal at the AIBA World Boxing Championships. Thapa has been elected as a member of the International Boxing Association (amateur) Athletes Committee.
Vikas Krishan Yadav is an Indian boxer from Bhiwani district in Haryana, the hub of some of India's best boxers. He won a gold medal in the 2010 Asian Games in the Lightweight category and a gold medal in 75 kg weight category at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. He is one of the best boxers of India. He also boxed professionally.
Ferhat Pehlivan is a Turkish amateur boxer competing in the light-flyweight division. The 1.68 m tall boxer at 49 kg (108 lb) was a member of the Karnet S.K. in Akçaabat, Trabzon before he transferred to Fenerbahçe Boxing. He is coached by Altar Kalkışım. He is a student at the Atatürk University in Erzurum.
Kadri Kordel is a Turkish amateur boxer in the flyweight (51 kg) division. In 2005 he fought at the World Amateur Boxing Championships in Mianyang, China in the under 48 kilogram division. He was beaten in the quarterfinals. He is currently a member of the Fenerbahçe Boxing squad. A native of Kütahya, he is coached by Muammer Sağlam.
The 2008 Women's European Union Amateur Boxing Championships were held in the Greenbank Sports Academy in Liverpool, England from August 4 to 8. This was the 3rd edition of this annual competition, and was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA.
Mohamed Flissi is an Algerian boxer. He represented Algeria at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom and at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He also qualified to represent Algeria at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
