Gennady Kovalev

Gennady Kovalev

Personal information
Full name	Геннадий Геннадиевич Ковалёв
Nationality	Russia
Born	(1983-05-17) May 17, 1983 Kropotkin, Krasnodar Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
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.

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.