Serik Konakbayev

Serik Konakbayev

Serik Konakabayev (left) and Jose Aguilar
Medal record
Men's amateur boxing
Representing Soviet Union
Olympic Games
	1980 Moscow	Light Welterweight
Friendship Games
	1984 Havana	Welterweight
World Championships
	1982 Munich	Welterweight
World Cup
	1979 New York	Light Welterweight
	1981 Montreal	Welterweight
European Championships
	1979 Cologne	Light Welterweight
	1981 Tampere	Welterweight

Serik Kerimbekuly Konakbaev (Kazakh: Серік Керімбекұлы Қонақбаев, Serık Kerımbekūly Qonaqbaev; Russian: Серик Керимбекович Конакбаев; born October 25, 1959, in Pavlodar, Kazakh SSR) is a retired Kazakh amateur boxer, who represented the USSR at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. There he won the silver medal in the light welterweight division (– 63.5 kg), after being defeated in the final by Patrizio Oliva of Italy. Two years later he once again captured the silver medal, this time at the World Championships in Munich, West Germany.

Olympics

1980 Olympic results

• Defeated Simion Cuţov (Romania) by unanimous decision, 5–0
• Defeated Imre Bácskai (Hungary) RET 2
• Defeated José Angel Molina (Puerto Rico) by walkover
• Defeated José Aguilar (Cuba) by majority decision, 4–1
• Lost to Patrizio Oliva (Italy) by majority decision, 1–4

1984 Olympics

Further information: 1984 Summer Olympics boycott

Konakbayev came to attention of Howard Cosell, and after the Soviet Olympic authorities announced the USSR team wouldn't show up at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, where Konakbayev had genuine chances to compete for the gold medal at the welterweight event of the Games, Cosell said:

As for the Soviets, well, they are no longer dominant in boxing, they have a couple of good-ones, one of them a man named Konakbayev.

Konakbaev (right) and Mark Breland (left) in 2010

External links

• Serik Konakbayev at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
• Serik Konakbayev at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Article by Kyle McLachlan (Bad Left Hook, February 15, 2015).