Aleksei Tishchenko


Aleksei Viktorovich Tishchenko is a former Russian Olympic boxer best known to dominate the lower weight classes in the last years winning numerous titles. He was regarded as "one of the best pound for pound Olympic boxers in the world".
He was born in Omsk, Soviet Union.

Career

Pressure fighter Tishchenko won the Featherweight Gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He qualified for the Athens Games by ending up in first place at the 2nd AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Warsaw, Poland.
Tishchenko also won the featherweight gold medal at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Mianyang, China.
In 2005 he was part of the Russian team that won the 2005 Boxing World Cup.
2006 he went up to lightweight and immediately won the European title in Plovdiv.
As of 2007 he has been elected into the Omsk Regional Duma for United Russia. At the same year at the world championships he was upset by Englishman Frankie Gavin.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he benefitted from Gavin's absence and won the Gold Medal by defeating French boxer Daouda Sow in the final.
On 11 February 2011 he announced about finishing his career.

Amateur results

2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece
2006 European Amateur Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2007 World Amateur Championships in Chicago, United States
2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China