Serik Konakbayev

Serık KerımbekÅ«ly Qonaqbaev (; born 25 October 1959) is a Kazakh politician and retired amateur boxer, who represented the USSR at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union and was later member of the Mäjilis. 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 CuÅ£ov (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

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:

Notes

References

External links

• Article by Kyle McLachlan (Bad Left Hook, February 15, 2015).