Oleksandr Klyuchko (Ukrainian: Олександр Ключко) (born July 11, 1984 in Mykolaiv) is an amateur boxer from Ukraine who won a bronze medal in the lightweight division at the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships. He has qualified for the 2008 Olympics.
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| Full name | Олександр Ключко | |||||||||||
| Nationality |  Ukraine | |||||||||||
| Born | July 11, 1984 Mykolaiv, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||
| Weight | 60 kg (130 lb) | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||
| Weight class | Lightweight | |||||||||||
| Club | Dynamo Mykolaiv | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
At the European Championships he won against Domenico Valentino 30:18 and future world champion Frankie Gavin 42:26, but lost to Olympic champion Alexey Tishchenko 29:42 and took bronze.
At the World Championships 2007 he defeated Asian champion Hu Qing 26:13 but lost against by Colombian Darley Perez 10:13.
He qualified for the 2008 Olympics by defeating Daouda Sow and Azerbaijani boxer Ramal Amanov in the semifinal of a European qualifying tournament. In his Olympic debut he lost to Hu Qing of China, 8:10.
At the 2010 European Amateur Boxing Championships at Moscow, Russia he won the bronze medal. In the semifinals he lost to Hrachik Javakhyan from Armenia.
External links
- Olympic qualifier
- AIBA results for Olympic qualification.
- 2006 European Championships Results
- sports-reference