2009 Women's European Amateur Boxing Championships

The 7th Women's European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Mykolaiv, Ukraine from September 15th to 20th, 2009. This edition of the recurring competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EUBC. 113 fighters representing 26 federations competed in 11 weight classes, the limits of which had changed since the previous edition of the championships.[1]

Russia topped the medals table (as they had done in the six previous editions of these championships), although host country Ukraine won more medals in total including 5 bronzes. Featherweight (57kg) victor Sofia Ochigava was voted Best Boxer of the tournament.[2]

Medal winners[3]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Pinweight
(46kg)
Russia Svetlana Gnevanova Sweden Natalie Lungo Romania Steluta Duta

Ukraine Oksana Shtakun

Light flyweight
(48kg)
Sweden Jenny Hardingz[4] Russia Elena Savelyeva Romania Lidia Ion

Hungary Monika Csik

Flyweight
(51kg)
Ukraine Tatyana Kob Sweden Shipra Nilsson France Virginie Nave

Turkey Sümeyra Kaya-Yazıcı

Bantamweight
(54kg)
Poland Karolina Michalczuk Ukraine Ivanna Krupenia Sweden Helena Falk

Russia Viktoria Usachenko

Featherweight
(57kg)
Russia Sofia Ochigava Ukraine Yulia Tsiplakova Italy Marzia Davide

Turkey Nagehan Gul

Lightweight
(60kg)
Republic of Ireland Katie Taylor[5] Turkey Meryem Aslan Zeybek Bulgaria Denitsa Eliseyeva

Ukraine Olexandra Sidorenko

Light welterweight
(64kg)
Turkey Gülsüm Tatar France Farida el-Hadrati Russia Vera Slugina

Ukraine Yana Zavyalova

Welterweight
(69kg)
Norway Lotte Lien[4] Poland Katarzyna Furmaniak France Gihade Lagmiri

Ukraine Tatiana Ivaschenko

Middleweight
(75kg)
Russia Irina Sinetskaya Ukraine Liliya Durnyeva Hungary Anita Ducza

Germany Ulrike Brueckner

Light heavyweight
(81kg)
Romania Luminita Turcin Turkey Selma Yagci Hungary Maria Kovacs

Bulgaria Desislava Lazarova

Heavyweight
(+81kg)
Russia Nadezhda Torlopova Turkey Semsi Yarali Romania Raluca Chis

Ukraine Inna Shevchenko

Medal count table

      Host nation ( Ukraine)

2009 European Women's Amateur Boxing Championship
Pos Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Russia 4 1 2 7
2  Ukraine 1 3 5 9
3  Turkey 1 3 2 6
4  Sweden 1 2 1 4
5  Poland 1 1 0 2
6  Romania 1 0 3 4
7  Ireland 1 0 0 1
 Norway 1 0 0 1
9  France 0 1 2 3
10  Hungary 0 0 3 3
11  Bulgaria 0 0 2 2
12  Germany 0 0 1 1
 Italy 0 0 1 1
Total 11 11 22

References

  1. "7.European Womens Championships - Mykolaiv, Ukraine - September 15-20 2009". Retrieved 3 Aug 2011.
  2. "Ochigava steals European Women's show on European Boxing Championships". Chinese Olympic Committee. 20 Sep 2009. Retrieved 4 Aug 2011.
  3. "Boxing". sports123.com. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 3 Aug 2011.
  4. 1 2 Teddy Stenmark (22 Sep 2009). "Latest Swedish News". secondsout.com. Retrieved 4 Aug 2011.
  5. Andreas Tzortis (31 Oct 2009). "Boxing: London calling Taylor towards crowning glory". Irish Independent. Retrieved 4 Aug 2011.
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