 Georgiy Chygayev | ||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||
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| Full name | Георгій Чигаєв | |||||||||||
| Nationality |  Ukraine | |||||||||||
| Born | October 19, 1983 Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||
| Weight | 48 kg (106 lb) | |||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||
| Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||
| Weight class | Flyweight | |||||||||||
| Club | Dynamo Lviv | |||||||||||
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Georgiy Chygayev (born October 19, 1983 in Lviv) is a Ukrainian amateur boxer in the flyweight division who qualified for the 2008 Olympics and won a gold medal at the 2008 European championships.
At the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Chicago, Chygayev missed out on a bronze medal after he was defeated by France's Nordine Oubaali in the quarter-finals. Chygayev qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics, however, by virtue of getting to the quarter-finals.
At the Olympics he lost his second bout to Cuban Yampier Hernández.
Chygayev went up to flyweight represented the Ukraine at the 2008 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Liverpool, England. At the championships Campbell defeated Munin Veli in the semifinals before facing lanky Swede Salomo N'tuve in the final. [1]
Despite being much shorter than his opponent the Ukrainian cruised to a 5:0 victory. [1]
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