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Asadkhuja Muydinkhujaev
Asadkhuja Muydinkhujaev (Uzbek: Asadxoʻja Moʻydinxoʻjayev, born 5 May 2001) is an Uzbek boxer, gold medalist of 2023 IBA Men's World Boxing Championships in welterweight category[1] and bronze medalist of 2022 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships that held in Amman, Jordan.[2] Asadkhuja also won gold at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the welterweight category. BiographyAsadkhuja was born on 8 May in 2001 in Fergana, Rishtan. He started to train boxing at Fergana sports College of Olympic reserve when he was 13. Amateur career
World Boxing ChampionshipsIn 2021 he participated in his first amateur Elite IBA World Boxing Championships, winning his first two bouts against Eugene McKeever and Ahmed Harara and losing in his third bout against Japanese boxer Sewon Okazawa.[10] In 2023 at the IBA World Boxing Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan he became world champion in the welterweight category by beating Yuto Wakita (5–0), Kiryl Samadurau (5–0); Cuban Roniel Iglesias (4–3) in the quarterfinal, Battömöriin Misheelt (5–0) in the semifinal, [11] and Dulat Bekbauov (5–0) in the final.[citation needed] Asian Boxing ChampionshipsIn 2022 at the Asian Amateur Boxing Championships Muydinkhujaev competed in 67 kg and became the bronze medalist of Asian Championships.[12] References
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