Sergey Kazakov

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Medal record
Competitor for Russia
Men's Boxing
World Amateur Championships
Gold	Bangkok 2003	Light Flyweight
European Amateur Championships
Gold	Minsk 1998	Light Flyweight
Silver	Tampere 2000	Light Flyweight
Gold	Perm 2002	Light Flyweight
Gold	Pula 2004	Light Flyweight
Olympic Games
Bronze	2004 Athens, Greece	Light flyweight

Sergey Kazakov (born July 8, 1976) is a Russian amateur boxer best known to win the World Championships 2003 and European Championships 1998, 2002 and 2004 at Light Flyweight.

[edit] Career

5' 7" Kazakov won the European Championships in 1998. In 2000 he lost at the European Championships to Valeri Sidorenko in the finals and at the Olympics 2000 against reigning world champ Brian Viloria 6:8 in the first round. In 2003 he won the World Championships with a close final victory against future star Zou Shiming 23:19. He added a victory at the European championships 2002 and 2004 by beating Alfonso Pinto. 2004 at the Olympics he was upset by young Turk Atagün Yalçınkaya and had to settle for bronze. 2005 at the world championships he again lost to a teenager in Hungary's Pal Bedak.

2007 he lost at the Russian Championships against David Ayrapetyan 9:25.