Russia makes up for embarassing 2007 AIBA

For all those who have followed the 2007 AIBA boxing world championships this year, you should know for a fact that this year's AIBA championships was not originally slated in Chicago for this year. It should have been in Russia. It turns out that Russia was unable to comply with the AIBA organizations requirements to host the event this year. The amateur boxing organization forfeited Russia's hosting privilege at awarded it to the city of Chicago.

At the tournament in recent days, Team Russia showed it's might and superiority over the rest of the amateur boxing world as it barges 8 out of 11 boxers into the boxing tournament's semi-final round. Among the country participants for this year. Russia was the most successful followed by China and Italy. Unfortunately for the country host, 9 out of the 11 boxers they had sent did not get past the quarter-finals.

Here's a partial list of semi-finalists in this 2007 AIBA world boxing championships in Chicago:

JONGJOHOR Somjit, PICARDI Vicenzo, KILIC Yakup, SELIMOV Albert, KAWACHI Masatsugu, SAPIYEV Serik, BAKHTIYAR Artayev, BLANCO Alfonso, CHAKHKEIV Rakhim, M'BUMBA John, MAMMADOV Samir, WARREN Raushee, LOMACHENKO Vasyl, LI Yang, SAUNDERS Bradley, KOVALEV Gennady, DEREVYANCHENKO Sergiy, KOROBOV Matvey
RUSSO Clemente, YUSHAN Nijiati, TANAMOR Harry, RUENROENG Amnat, ARROYO McJoe, VODOPYANOV Sergey, TISHCHENKO Alexey, GAVIN Frankie, KILICCI Adem, ANDRADE Demetrius, BETERBIEV Artur, SEMIOTAS Daugirdas, ZHANG Zhilei, GLAZKOV Vyacheslav, OUBAALI Nordine, ZOU Shiming, BADAR-UUGAN Enkhbat, MURRAY Joseph, VALENTINO Domenico, KIM Song Guk, BOONJUMNONG Non, HANATI Silamu, ATOEV Abbos, SHYNALIYEV Yerkebuian, TIMURZIEV Islam, CAMMARELLE Roberto

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