ACOG - News - IBM

Olympic Boxing Recaps: 24 July (Day 5)

Light Welterweight/63.5 kg

The boxers that advanced to the second round in the light welterweight class are Jacek BIELSKI (POL), Mohamed ALALOU (ALG), Francis BARRETT (IRL), Fethi MISSAOUI (TUN), David DIAZ (USA), Serguei BYKOVSKI (BLR) and from France Nordine MOUICHI.

The best bout of the night featured two boxers ranked in the top ten in the world. Germany's Oktay URKAL who was a bronze medalist at the 1995 World Championships and ranked number six in the world, defeated Reynaldo GALIDO from the Philippines. GALIDO was ranked at number two. URKAL took control of the bout from the beginning, by landing solid combinations and avoiding GALIDO'S punches to build a 5-0 lead in the first round.

In the second round URKAL continued his dominance and stretched his lead to 10-1 before winning 19-2.

"I was telling my family that I would have liked to have seen another country, said DIAZ. " But now after walking out there I have changed my mind. I felt like it was ten Davids going out there to fight."


Light Heavyweight/81 kg.

The light heavyweight winners included France's Jean-Louis MANDENGUE, Sweden's Ismael KONE, Croatia's Stipe DRVIS, Uzbekistan's Timur IBRAIMOV, Korea's Seung-Bao LEE, and Cuba's Freddy ROJAS.

World champion bronze medalist Thomas ULRICH (GER) made his debut Wednesday as he defeated Australian Rick Timperi. ULRICH landed a hard left hook that resulted in a standing eight count in the first round. However, TIMPERI rallied at the end of the first round to come back from a 5-1 deficit, and end the first round in the lead, 6-4. In the second round, ULRICH jarred TIMPERI with another standing eight count this time with a right cross. He then scored six consecutive points going into the third round with a 12-5 lead. In the third round, TIMPERI was never able to catch up as ULRICH took complete control of the bout ending it by a score of 21-7.



Standing

Going into the second round only one team was undefeated. As you probably guessed, it was Cuba at 8-0. The United States is in second place at 7-1, and Russia is in third place at 6-0.


Light Welterweight/63.5 kg.

The day started off with 1992 gold medalist Hector VINENT from Cuba. He was a two-time world champion and was ranked No. 1 in the world at the end of 1995. VINENT easily defeated his opponent, HAN Hyung-Min from Korea. He stopped HAN in the second round to be the first to advance in his weight class. When the bout was stopped, VINENT was ahead 8-3. The next boxer to step into the ring was the silver medalist from the 1995 World Championships, Nurhan SULEYMANOGLU from Turkey. He also prevailed over his opponent Aboubacar DIALLO from Guinea, 21-5. At the end of 1995 SULEYMANOGLU was ranked No. 4 in the world.

Other boxers that advanced to the second round included Canada's Phillip BOUDREAULT, Russia's Edward ZAKHAROV, Zambia's Davis MWALE, Kazakstan's Bolat NIYAZYMBETOV, ranked No. 3 in the world, and the Seychelles' Jervy LE GRAS, ranked No. 5 in the world.

Bulgaria's Radoslav SUSLEKOV, the bronze medalist at the 1995 World Championships, was defeated today in an upset. Iran's Moghimi BABAK beat him by a score of 11-3. The bout started off slow, the first round ending with a score of 2 -0, with BABAK leading. BABAK took control of the bout in the second round when he built a 6-1 lead by using his effective left jab. In the third round, SUSLEKOV landed two soft left hooks but was never able to catch up to BABAK's lead.

"I didn't expect the fight to be easy," said BABAK. "I knew that (SUSLEKOV) was a left-hander. I wanted to use my right hand to get around him, and I did."


Light Heavyweight/81 kg.

Antonio TARVER started off this weight class with another win for the USA, but just barely. He beat Dmitri VYBORNOV from the Russian Federation, 5-2. Other boxers advancing include the Republic of South Africa's Sybrand BOTES, Puerto Rico's Enrique FLORES, Canada's Troy Amos ROSS, Cameroon's Paul MBONGO, Kazakistan's Vassili JIROV, Italy's Pedro AURINO and Brazil's Daniel BISPO.


This is an official publication of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games Sports Publications Department.


Return to the Olympic News Menu

Select another day:
Pre July 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 August 1 2 3 4 Post


Olympic Factoid
The volunteer staff of the 1996 Olympic Games totaled 50,152. They worked an estimated 850,000 shifts.