Azerbaijani boxer (born 1980)
Aghasi Aghagul oghlu Mammadov (born 1 June 1980) is an Azerbaijani boxer who competed in the bantamweight division (54 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.
Career
Mammadov competed for Turkey for several years, under the name Aghasi Aghaguloghlu, for instance at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
Olympic results 2000 (as a bantamweight)
He returned to Azerbaijan before the 2002 European Championships, and now competes for Azerbaijan. A year later, at the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Bangkok, he won the world title in the Bantamweight Division in the finals against Russia's Gennady Kovalev.
In the second round he sensationally beat Cuban superstar Guillermo Rigondeaux 16:13 after losing to him in Sydney and Belfast. He qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics by topping the 4th AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Olympic results 2004 (as a bantamweight)
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- 1974–2009: up to 54 kg
- 2011–2017: up to 56 kg
- 2021–present: up to 54 kg
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