Gennady Kovalev

Russian boxer

Gennady Kovalev

Personal information

Full name

Геннадий Геннадиевич Ковалёв

Nationality

Russia

Born

(1983-05-17) May 17, 1983 (age 40)
Kropotkin, Krasnodar Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

Height

1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)

Weight

64 kg (141 lb)

Sport

Boxing

Weight class

Light Welterweight

Club

Rossiyskiy Sportivnyy Studencheskiy

Medal record

World Amateur Championships

	2003 Bangkok	Bantamweight
	2007 Chicago	Light Welterweight
European Amateur Championships
	2004 Pula	Bantamweight
	2002 Perm	Bantamweight

Gennady Gennadiyevich Kovalev (Russian: Геннадий Геннадиевич Ковалёв; born 17 May 1983 in Kropotkin, Krasnodar Krai) is a boxer from Russia.

Career

Southpaw Kovalev won the silver medal at the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships, defeating Uzbekistan's Bahodirjon Sooltonov but losing to Azerbaijan's Aghasi Mammadov at bantam, and a gold medal at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships .

He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native country. There he was beaten in the quarterfinals of the Bantamweight (54 kg) division by Cuba's eventual winner Guillermo Rigondeaux.

Now at junior welterweight he won the Russian Championships 2007 against legend Alexander Maletin 37:21. At the World championships he beat Bradley Saunders to reach the finals but lost to defending Kazakh champion Serik Sapiyev 5:20.

After his boxing career, Kovalev has found success as a professional MMA fighter, going 5-1 as a professional.^[1]

World amateur championships results

2003 (as a bantamweight)

Defeated Berik Serikbayev (Kazakhstan) 21-6
Defeated Zsolt Bedák (Hungary) 43-20
Defeated Khavazi Khatsygov (Bulgaria) 25-14
Defeated Bahodirjon Sooltonov (Uzbekistan) 21-15
Lost to Aghasi Mammadov (Azerbaijan) 8-17

2007 (as a Light welterweight)

Defeated Andrey Tsiruk (Belarus) 33-11
Defeated Marufjon Fayzuloyev (Tajikistan) 24-10
Defeated Gyula Kate (Hungary) 22-9
Defeated Boris Georgiev (Bulgaria) walkover
Defeated Bradley Saunders (England) 16-8
Lost to Serik Sapiyev (Kazakhstan) 5-20

Olympic results

2004 (as a bantamweight)

1st round bye
Defeated Malik Bouziane (Algeria) 23-20
Lost to Guillermo Rigondeaux (Cuba) 5-20

2008 (as a Light welterweight)

Defeated Maimaitituersun Qiong (China) 15-8
Defeated Richarno Colin (Mauritius) 11:2
lost to Roniel Iglesias (Cuba) 2:5

References

"Gennady Kovalev". sports.yahoo.com. Yahoo! Sports. Archived from the original on 2011-05-22.
Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Gennady Kovalyov". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.