Atagün Yalçınkaya is a Turkish boxer in the bantamweight (54 kg) division best known for winning the silver medal in the light-flyweight category at the 2004 Olympics.
Aghasi Mammadov is an Azerbaijani boxer who competed in the bantamweight division (54 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.
Worapoj Petchkoom is a Thai boxer who competed in the bantamweight (54 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal losing to Cuban superstar Guillermo Rigondeaux. He qualified for the Athens Games by ending up in first place in the 2nd AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Karachi, Pakistan. In the final he defeated India's Diwakar Prasad.
Hicham Mesbahi is a boxer from Morocco who participated in three Olympics. He was born in Casablanca.
Vitali Tajbert is a German former professional boxer who competed from 2005 to 2013. He held the WBC super-featherweight title in 2010 and the European Union title in 2008. As an amateur, he won a silver medal at the 2003 World Championships, a gold medal at the 2004 European Championships, and a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics, all in the featherweight division.
Jérôme Cedric Thomas is a French former boxer, he competed in the flyweight division as an amateur and as a bantamweight as a professional.
Gennady Gennadiyevich Kovalev is a boxer from Russia.
Shahin Imranov is a boxer from Azerbaijan. He is best known for winning two featherweight silver medals at European championships.
Bato-Munko Demyanovich Vankeyev is a boxer from Belarus.
Alexander Espinoza Hernández is a bantamweight boxer from Venezuela, who represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He qualified for the Olympic Games by ending up in second place at the 2nd AIBA American 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He won the bronze medal in the men's bantamweight division at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games in El Salvador. In 2016 on a Professional boxing bout, Espinoza was badly defeated by Filipino Prospect Genesis Servania in Japan.
Clemente Russo is an Italian amateur boxer, best known for winning gold at the 2007 and 2013 World Amateur Boxing Championships at heavyweight. He currently boxes for the Italia Thunder team in the World Series of Boxing league. He also signed up for the AIBA professional league, the APB, which launched in autumn 2013.
Zsolt Bedák is a Hungarian boxer. His younger brother Pál Bedák is a flyweight boxer.
The bantamweight competition was the third-lowest weight class featured in amateur boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and was held at the Workers Indoor Arena. Bantamweights were limited to a maximum of 54 kilograms in body mass.
Veaceslav Gojan is a Moldovan amateur boxer who won Bantamweight bronze at the 2008 Olympics. He comes from the village of Grimăncăuţi, district of Briceni and is a member of the Central Sport Club Dinamo in Chişinău. His coach is Petru Caduc.
Wilhelm Gratschow is a German amateur boxer who qualified for the 2008 Olympics.
Aybek Abdymomunov is a male amateur boxer from Kyrgyzstan. He qualified to compete at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the bantamweight division where he lost in the first round to Pakistan's Mehrullah Lassi.
Liu Yuan is a male amateur boxer from PR China. He qualified to compete at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the bantamweight division where he lost in the first round to Cuba's eventual gold medalist Guillermo Rigondeaux. Liu qualified for the 2004 Athens Games as a bantamweight by ending up in second place at the 1st AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Guangzhou, PR China. In the final he lost to Pakistan's Mehrullah Lassi.
Oleksandr Valeriyovych Zakharuk is a retired amateur Ukrainian freestyle wrestler, who competed in the men's featherweight category. Considered one of the world's top freestyle wrestlers in his decade, Zakharuk had claimed five European championship titles, picked up three bronze medals at the World Championships, and achieved top eight finishes in two editions of the Olympic Games. Throughout his sporting career, Zakharuk trained as a member of the freestyle wrestling team for Ukraina Kyiv Sport Club, under his coach Serhiy Obesnyuk.
Herman Stsepanovich Kantoyeu is a retired amateur Belarusian freestyle wrestler, who competed in the men's featherweight category. Considered as one of the world's top freestyle wrestlers in his decade, Kantoyeu became a freestyle wrestling champion in the 54-kg division at the 2001 World Wrestling Championships, and later represented his nation Belarus in two editions of the Olympic Games.
Belarus competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. It was the nation's sixth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era.
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