Amateur boxing is a variant of boxing practised at the collegiate level, at the Olympic Games, Pan American Games and Commonwealth Games, as well as many associations.
Raimkul Khudoynazarovich Malakhbekov is one of highest titled boxers of Russia, who won two Olympic medals in the Men's Bantamweight (54 kg) category.
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 Olympics, all in the featherweight division.
The boxing programme of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China was held at the Workers Indoor Arena.
Sherali Dostiev is a male boxer from Tajikistan. He is competing in the Light Flyweight division, and won a bronze medal at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships.
The European Amateur Boxing Championships is the highest competition for boxing amateurs in Europe, organised by the continent's governing body EUBC, which stands for the European Boxing Confederation. The first edition of the tournament took place in 1924, although the first 'competitive' championships were hosted by the city of Stockholm (Sweden) in 1925.
Suban Pannon is a Thai amateur boxer who won a gold medal at the 1998 Asian Games.
Somjit Jongjohor is an amateur Thai boxer best known for winning gold medals in the flyweight division at the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships and at the Beijing 2008 Olympics.
Zou Shiming is a Chinese professional boxer who held the WBO flyweight title from 2016 to 2017. As an amateur, Shiming is China's most successful boxer of all time. In the light-flyweight division, he won three consecutive Olympic medals, as well as three World Amateur Boxing Championships gold medals in 2005, 2007 and 2011. In 2018, he has been hired by East China Normal University as a teacher.
Gennady Gennadiyevich Kovalev is a boxer from Russia.
Aleksandr Vyacheslavovich Alekseyev is a professional cruiserweight boxer from Russia.
Abdusalom Khasanov is an amateur boxer from Tajikistan.
Matvey Georgiyevich "Matt" Korobov is a Russian professional boxer who has challenged once for the WBO middleweight title in 2014, and the WBC interim middleweight title in 2018. As an amateur he won consecutive gold medals at the 2005 and 2007 World Championships, and gold at the 2005 Boxing World Cup; all in the middleweight division.
Yerkebulan Shynaliyev is an amateur boxer from Kazakhstan best known to win the bronze medal at light heavyweight at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships.
Anvar Yunusov is a Tajikistani boxer who currently competes as a professional in the super featherweight division. As an amateur, he won bronze at the 2011 amateur world championships, gold at the 2011 Asian championships, and qualified for the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics. He is also known for giving Asian Games winner Violito Payla his first ever stoppage defeat at the 2007 World Championships.
Tajikistan participated in the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore.
The boxing tournaments at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 6 to 21 August 2016 at the Pavilion 6 of Riocentro.
Zhanibek Alimkhanuly is an amateur boxer from Kazakhstan. He won the gold medal at the 2013 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships after defeating Navruz Jafoev of Tajikistan. He also won gold medal of the 2013 AIBA World Boxing Championships.
The 2017 AIBA Youth Women's World Boxing Championships were held in Guwahati, India, from November 19 to November 26, 2017. The competition is under the supervision of the world's governing body for amateur boxing AIBA and is the junior version of the World Amateur Boxing Championships. Boxers aged between 17 and 18 as of 1 January 2017 were eligible to compete.
Shavkatdzhon Shokirovich Rakhimov is a Tajikistani professional boxer who competes in the super featherweight division. He has held the IBO super featherweight title since 2017. Rakhimov is currently ranked #5 by the WBC and IBF.
