Denis Sergeev
{{short description|Russian boxer}}
{{about||the Russian officer|Denis Sergeev (GRU officer)|the Russian ice hockey player|Dennis Sergeyev}}
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{{MedalSport | Men's boxing}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Amateur Championships}}
{{MedalSilver| 2008 Liverpool | Super Heavyweight}}
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Denis Sergeyevich Sergeev or Denis Sergeyevich Sergeyev (Денис Сергеевич Сергеев; born March 21, 1982, in Vladimir Oblast, Russia) is a Russian amateur boxer who won the silver medal at the 2008 European Amateur Boxing Championships in the super heavyweight division.
Career
Sergeev won a bronze in the 2005 Super-heavyweight Russian senior national championships losing 29:14 to Vladislav Vasilev and won a bronze again in 2006 losing to Magomed Abdusalamov in the semi-final by 49:44. The following year in 2007 he won the title beating European champion Islam Timurziev 22:19 in the final and followed the success up in 2008 beating Shamil Gadzhiyev to win the title.{{cite web | author= | title=Russian National Championships | work=STRAFA | url=http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Nationalchamps/Russia.html| accessdate=16 December 2008 }}
In November 2007, Sergeev won the "Good Luck Beijing" International Boxing Tournament at the Beijing Workers' Indoor Arena, China, beating Michael Hunter of the USA 21-18 in the final.{{cite web | author= | title=Medallists by weight category | work=International Boxing Association | url=http://www.aiba.org/documents/site1/Events/European%20CHs%202008/2008%20Euro%20CH%20Medallists.pdf| accessdate=16 November 2008 }}{{cite web | title=Denis Sergeev lifts +91kg trophy | work=Boxing 2007 | url=http://www.boxing2007.org/en/news/2007-11-22/21789.html | accessdate=16 December 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006105035/http://www.boxing2007.org/en/news/2007-11-22/21789.html | archive-date=6 October 2008 | url-status=dead }}
=European Amateur Championships 2008=
Sergeev represented Russia at the 2008 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Liverpool, England. He won a silver medal after being defeated in the final 9:2 by Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev.{{cite web | title=2008 European Boxing Championships Results Service | work=Amateur Boxing Association of England | url=http://www.liverpoolboxing.co.uk/ | accessdate=16 December 2008 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205032757/http://www.liverpoolboxing.co.uk/ | archivedate=5 December 2008 }}
2008 (as a Super heavyweight)
- Preliminary round Defeated Andrew Wyn Jones (Wales) RSC4
- Quarter-finals Defeated Mikhaili Sheibak (Belarus) 7-2
- Semi-finals Defeated Memnun Hadzic (Bosnia) RTD3
- Finals Lost to Kubrat Pulev (Bulgaria) 9-2
=2009=
At the 2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships he lost to Viktar Zuyev and didn't medal.
References
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Category:Super-heavyweight boxers
Category:Sportspeople from Vladimir Oblast
Category:21st-century Russian sportsmen
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