Vasyl Lomachenko
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Competitor for  Ukraine |
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| Silver | 2007 Chicago, USA | Featherweight | |
Vasyl Lomachenko (born February 17, 1988) is a Ukrainian amateur boxer who won the silver medal at featherweight at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships.
[edit] Career
In 2004 he became junior flyweight European U17 champion, in 2006 the aggressive southpaw won the Junior World Championships, where he beat future bantam world champion and fellow southpaw Sergey Vodopyanov.
Next year at the (seniors) World Championships 2007 in Chicago he beat Abner Cotto in the first round, Theodoros Papazov, Arturo Santos Reyes, and Li Yang in the semifinal to reach a fight against Russian favorite Albert Selimov, another southpaw, that he lost 12:16.
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