Bahodirjon Sooltonov (Баходирджон Султанов; born January 15, 1985, in Andijan) is an Uzbekistani boxer who competed in the bantamweight (54 kg) division at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.

Career

At bantamweight he won bronze 2003 losing to Gennadi Kovalev. He qualified for the Athens Games by winning the gold medal at the 2004 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships in Puerto Princesa, Philippines. In the final he defeated Kyrgyzstan's Aybek Abdymomunov.

Bahodirjon Sultonov

Sooltonov won the gold medal at featherweight at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha beating Olympic silver medalist Kim Song Guk in the semifinal and Zorigtbaataryn Enkhzorig.

Bahodirjon Sultonov

At the world championships 2007 he lost to eventual Russian winner Albert Selimov and didn't medal.

Bahodirjon Sultonov

Olympic Results 2004

2004 (as a bantamweight) 1st round bye Defeated Andrzej Liczik (Poland) RSC 2 (1:28) Defeated Andrew Kooner (Canada) 44–32 Lost to Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz (Cuba) 13–27, southpaw Rigondeaux scored a knockdown

Olympic Results 2008

Defeated Anthresh Lalit Lakra (India) 9–5

Lost to Vasyl Lomachenko (Ukraine) 1–13

World amateur championships results

2003 (as a bantamweight) Defeated Ibrahim Aydogan (Turkey) RSCO 2 Defeated Waldemar Cucereanu (Romania) 21–10 Defeated Han Sung-Moon (South Korea) 37–19 Lost to Gennady Kovalev (Russia) 15–21 (placed third)

2005 (as a bantamweight) Defeated Mirzhan Rakhimzhanov (Kazakhstan) 26–18 Defeated Zsolt Bedak (Hungary) 41–23 Defeated Kim Won-Guk (North Korea) 36–19 Lost to Guillermo Rigondeaux (Cuba) RSCO

2007 (as a featherweight) Defeated Jesús Cuéllar (Argentina) 31–13 Defeated Han Song-Ryong (North Korea) 31–8 Lost to Albert Selimov (Russia) 9–24

External links

2003 world results

Asian Games

1985 births

Living people

People from Andijan

Bantamweight boxers

Olympic boxers for Uzbekistan

Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Olympic bronze medalists for Uzbekistan

Olympic medalists in boxing

Asian Games medalists in boxing

Boxers at the 2006 Asian Games

Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Uzbekistani male boxers

AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists

Asian Games gold medalists for Uzbekistan

Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games