Minister of Sport opened the 61st international boxing tournament “Strandzha Cup”
In the town of Yambol Minister of sport Svilen Neykov opened the 61st international boxing tournament Strandzha. 13 different countries and 85 boxers are participating in it.
Today, 18 February, was the first day of the tournament and there were 22 bouts. The fight of the World champion and Bulgarian 2009 Sportsman of the Year Detelin Dalakliev in the bantamweight division was eagerly expected. His opponent was Mahmud Ahmed from Egypt and Dalakliev won easily on points. Elian Dimitrov from Bulgaria also celebrated a great win in the same weight division against the Cuban Forestal Marcos.
At 48kg the boxers who reached the semi-finals are Stefan Slavchev (Bulgaria), Yasurbek Lapitov (Uzbekistan) and the Russian Belik Galanov.
At 60kg the winners are the two Bulgarians Angel Dimov and Aytin Ismetov, the double Olympic champion Alexey Tischenko from Russia and Hurshid Todjibaev (Uzbekistan). At 69kg the winners are Vadim Varzar from Moldova, Erol Ozkal from Turkey, Uktamdzon Rahmonov from Uzbekistan and Banter Carlos Suarez from Cuba.
The winners at 81kg are Elshod Rasulov from Uzbekistan, the Bulgarian Hristo Balamotov, Artur Beterbiev from Russia and Abdelcader Bohenia from France. In the heaviest category over 91kg the winners are Primislav Dimovski from Macedonia, Hyusein Mohamed Dzhosun from Syria, Sergey Kuzmin from Russia and Alfonso Alber Assia from Cuba.
