Oleksandr Klyuchko
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Oleksandr Klyuchko (born July 11, 1984 in Mykolaiv
Mykolaiv
Mykolaiv , also known as Nikolayev , is a city in southern Ukraine, administrative center of the Mykolaiv Oblast. Mykolaiv is the main ship building center of the Black Sea, and, arguably, the whole Eastern Europe.-Name of city:...

) is an amateur boxer from Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

 who won a bronze medal in the lightweight
Lightweight
Light-weight is a class of athletes in a particular sport, based on their weight.-Professional boxing:The lightweight division is over 130 pounds and up to 135 pounds weight class in the sport of boxing....

 division at the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships
2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships
The Men's 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria from July 13 to July 23. The 36th edition of this bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA.-Medal winners:-Medal table:...

. He has qualified for the 2008 Olympics
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...

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At the European Championships
European Amateur Boxing Championships
The European Amateur Boxing Championships is the highest competition for boxing amateurs in Europe, organised by the continent's governing body EUBC, which stands for the European Boxing Confederation...

 he won against Domenico Valentino
Domenico Valentino
Domenico Valentino is a boxer from Italy.The hard punching Valentino won a bronze medal at lightweight at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula, Croatia.He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics...

 30:18 and future world champion Frankie Gavin
Frankie Gavin (boxer)
Frankie Raymond Gavin is a British professional boxer from Birmingham who, whilst an amateur, won the gold medal at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships to become English boxing's first ever World Amateur champion....

 42:26, but lost to Olympic champion Alexey Tishchenko 29:42 and took bronze.

At the World Championships 2007 he defeated Asia
Asia
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n champion Hu Qing
Hu Qing
Hu Qing is a male amateur boxer from China. He competed at the 2006 Asian Games in the lightweight division winning the gold medal in the match against Mongolia's Uranchimegiin Mönkh-Erdene....

 26:13 but lost against by Colombia
Colombia
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n Darley Perez
Darley Pérez
Darley Gregorio Pérez Ballesta is a Colombian pro boxer who had fought at the 2008 Summer Olympics as a lightweight.-Amateur:At the South American Games 2006 he won the gold medal vs Éverton Lopes...

 10:13.

He qualified for the 2008 Olympics by defeating Daouda Sow
Daouda Sow
Daouda Sow is an amateur boxer from France. He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the lightweight division.-Boxing career:...

 and Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...

i boxer Ramal Amanov in the semi final of a European qualifying tournament. In his Olympic debut he lost to Hu Qing of China
China
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, 8:10.

At the 2010 European Amateur Boxing Championships
2010 European Amateur Boxing Championships
The Men's 2010 European Amateur Boxing Championships was held in Moscow, Russia from June 4 to June 13, 2010. It was the 38th edition of this biennial competition organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EUBC.- Medal winners:...

 at Moscow, Russia he won the bronze medal. In the Semifinals he lost to Hrachik Javakhyan
Hrachik Javakhyan
Hrachik Javakhyan is an Armenian lightweight boxer best known to win Silver at the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Plovdiv and qualifying for the Olympics 2008.-Career:...

 from Armenia
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...

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