At a glance
- Roles
- athlete
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
Life in time
Place in the story
Unknown (unknown)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
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
Sources
- The defined source entities cited above, recorded in
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Sources
- Aghasi Mammadov — English Wikipedia
- Aghasi Mammadov — Arabic Wikipedia
- Aghasi Mammadov — Wikidata Q246560
- Aghasi Mammadov — Urdu Wikipedia
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Aghasi Mammadov”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/aghasi-mammadov/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-26.