Aghasi Mammadov

أغاسي مامادوف

Azerbaijani boxer, born in Baku in 1980. He competed for Turkey for several years, winning the European title in 2000 and world silver in 2001, then returned to Azerbaijan and won the world bantamweight title in 2003 and bronze at the Athens 2004 Olympics.

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Persia & Central Asia
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    Summary

    Aghasi Aghagul oghlu Mammadov (born 1980) is an Azerbaijani bantamweight boxer who represented two countries at the Olympics, Turkey and then Azerbaijan. He was born in Baku on 1 June 1980. 1 2 3

    Career

    He competed for Turkey for several years under the name Aghasi Aghaguloghlu, winning the European title at Tampere in 2000 and the Mediterranean Games gold in 2001, taking world silver at Belfast in 2001, and boxing at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, where he lost to Cuba's Guillermo Rigondeaux. He returned to Azerbaijan before the 2002 European Championships. 1

    At the 2003 World Championships in Bangkok he won the world bantamweight title, beating Rigondeaux himself in the second round and Russia's Gennady Kovalev in the final. He qualified for the Athens 2004 Olympics, defeated Joel Brunker, Detelin Dalakliev and Maksym Tretyak, and lost the semi-final to Thailand's Worapoj Petchkoom to take the bronze medal. 1

    A note on religion

    No source consulted names a religion or a school for Aghasi Mammadov: not the English article, not the Arabic stub; the Urdu stub is a translation of the English article and so the same source family; and Wikidata carries no religion value at all. His Azerbaijani origin is national background, which never counts, and no "Shia" claim exists in any source for the mapping rule to engage. His religion is therefore recorded as unknown in this record, on a complete absence of evidence. 1 2 3

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    Sources

    1. Aghasi Mammadov — English Wikipedia
    2. Aghasi Mammadov — Arabic Wikipedia
    3. Aghasi Mammadov — Wikidata Q246560
    • Aghasi Mammadov — Urdu Wikipedia
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