Jaroslavas Jakšto
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| Medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Competitor for  Lithuania |
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| Men’s Boxing | |||
| European Amateur Championships | |||
| Bronze | 2004 Pula | Super Heavyweight | |
Jaroslav Jaksto (born 7 August 1980) is an amateur boxer from Lithuania best known to win super heavyweight bronze at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula, Croatia. He was a 2004 Olympian and has qualified for the Olympics 2008.
[edit] Career
Jaksto won a bronze medal in the same division at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula, Croatia.
He also participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics. There he beat Victor Bisbal 27-16 but was defeated in the second round of the Super heavyweight (+91 kg) division by Egypt's eventual runner-up Mohamed Aly.
He won the Chemiepokal Cup in Germany 2005 by beating Michel López Núñez 17:12 and the Military world championships in 2006.
At the World Championships 2007 he lost to Vyacheslav Glazkov inside the distance.
At the first Olympic qualifier he lost to Kubrat Pulev, at the second qualifier he beat Robert Helenius and Yousef Abdelghani to qualify.
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