Abbos Atoev

Abbos Abdurazzoqovich Atoyev was born on 7 June 1986 in the village of Qulkhatib, Vobkent District, Bukhara Region. He is a southpaw boxer who studied at Bukhara State University in 2004-2008, worked as a boxing coach at a children's Olympic reserve sports school in the Bukhara region in 2004-2009, and has served in the Central Military Sports Club since 2009.

In 2004 he won bronze at the world junior championships and silver at the world university championships. In 2007 he won the Asian Championships (beating Zhang Xiaoping in the final) and the World Championships in Chicago at 81 kg, defeating Yerkebulan Shynaliyev in the semi-final and Artur Beterbiev in the final. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics he lost his first bout to Jahon Qurbonov. In 2009 he became world champion again in Milan, at 75 kg, beating Andranik Hakobyan in the final.

At the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou he took silver after losing the final to Vijender Singh, and at the 2011 World Championships in Baku he lost his first bout to Ryota Murata. In 2012 he won the Asian Olympic qualifier and at the London Olympics beat Badreddine Haddioui (11-9), Bogdan Juratoni (12-10) and Vijender Singh (17-13) before losing the semi-final to Ryota Murata 12-13 for bronze.

Honours: the Oʻzbekiston belgisi chest badge (2005), the El-yurt hurmati order (2007), the title Pride of Uzbekistan (2009) and Honoured Sportsman of Uzbekistan (2012); he is a master of sport of international class.