Georgiy Chygayev

Ukrainian boxer

Georgiy Chygayev

Personal information

Full name

Георгій Чигаєв

Nationality

Ukraine

Born

(1983-10-19) October 19, 1983 (age 40)
Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union

Height

1.61 m (5 ft 3 in)

Weight

48 kg (106 lb)

Sport

Boxing

Weight class

Flyweight

Club

Dynamo Lviv

Medal record

European Amateur Championships

	2008 Liverpool	Flyweight
	2010 Moscow	Bantamweight

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.

2007 World Amateur Boxing 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.

2008 Olympics

At the Olympics he lost his second bout to Cuban Yampier Hernández.

2008 European Championships

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]

References

^ ^a ^b "Medallists by weight category" (PDF). AIBA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 September 2009. Retrieved 16 November 2008.

External links

AIBA results for Olympic qualification at World Championships
Georgiy Chygayev's profile at Yahoo! Sports
Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Heorhiy Chyhaiev". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2012-10-24.