Konstantin Buga is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 amateur boxer best known for qualifying for the 2008 Olympics as a middleweight.

Career

Buga came to Germany in 1996 and received a German passport in 2002. He won the German championships at welterweight

Welterweight

Welterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like kickboxing, taekwondo and mixed martial arts also began to use it for their own weight division system...

 in 2005 but moved up to middleweight

Middleweight

Middleweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1897...

 later.
He participated in the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships

2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships

The 2007 AIBA World Boxing Championships were held in Chicago, United States from October 23, 2007 to November 3, 2007. It was held at the UIC Pavilion. It was the biggest World Championships in AIBA history. The championships were originally awarded to Moscow...

 and was one of only two German quarterfinalists that qualified directly for the Olympics.

He upset local hero Shawn Estrada

Shawn Estrada

Shawn Estrada is an undefeated Mexican American professional boxer in the Super Middleweight division and was a U.S...

 but lost to the surprise runner-up Alfonso Blanco (boxer)

Alfonso Blanco (boxer)

Alfonso Blanco Parra is an undefeated Venezuelan boxer in the Light Middleweight division. He was the 2008 Olympian for Venezuela and he also won the Middleweight silver medal at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships‎.-Amateur career:Blanco won the 2006 South America title against Carlos...

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World amateur championships results

• Defeated Tobias Webb (Wales) RSCO 3
• Defeated Jean-Mickaël Raymond
  Jean-Mickaël Raymond
  Jean-Mickaël Raymond is a French amateur boxer. He qualified for the 2008 Olympics as a middleweight.Raymond beat three unknowns in addition to Georgios Gazis. He was then stopped in the meaningless final by Darren Sutherland....
  
   (France) 19-8
• Defeated Shawn Estrada
  Shawn Estrada
  Shawn Estrada is an undefeated Mexican American professional boxer in the Super Middleweight division and was a U.S...
  
   (United States) 11-11
• Lost to Alfonso Blanco
  Alfonso Blanco (boxer)
  Alfonso Blanco Parra is an undefeated Venezuelan boxer in the Light Middleweight division. He was the 2008 Olympian for Venezuela and he also won the Middleweight silver medal at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships‎.-Amateur career:Blanco won the 2006 South America title against Carlos...
  
  (Venezuela) 9-18

External links

• World Championships 2007