Oleksandr Klyuchko

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Oleksandr Klyuchko (Ukrainian: Олександр Ключко) (born July 11, 1984 in Mykolaiv) is an amateur boxer from Ukraine who won a bronze medal in the lightweight division at the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships. He has qualified for the 2008 Olympics.

Oleksandr Klyuchko
Personal information
Full nameОлександр Ключко
Nationality Ukraine
Born (1984-07-11) July 11, 1984 (age 40)
Mykolaiv, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight60 kg (130 lb)
Sport
SportBoxing
Weight classLightweight
ClubDynamo Mykolaiv
Medal record
European Amateur Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Plovdiv Lightweight
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Moscow Light Welterweight

Career

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At the European Championships he won against Domenico Valentino 30:18 and future world champion Frankie Gavin 42:26, but lost to Olympic champion Alexey Tishchenko 29:42 and took bronze.

At the World Championships 2007 he defeated Asian champion Hu Qing 26:13 but lost against by Colombian Darley Perez 10:13.

He qualified for the 2008 Olympics by defeating Daouda Sow and Azerbaijani boxer Ramal Amanov in the semifinal of a European qualifying tournament. In his Olympic debut he lost to Hu Qing of China, 8:10.

At the 2010 European Amateur Boxing Championships at Moscow, Russia he won the bronze medal. In the semifinals he lost to Hrachik Javakhyan from Armenia.

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