Egor Mekhontsev
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Egor Leonidovich Mekhontsev
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| Real name | Егор Леонидович Мехонцев | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rated at | Light Heavyweight | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Russian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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November 14, 1984 Asbest, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia |
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| Stance | Southpaw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Total fights | 10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Losses | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Draws | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Egor Leonidovich Mekhontsev (Егор Леонидович Мехонцев, transliteration Egor Leonidovich Mechoncev; born on 14 November 1984 in Asbest, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR) is a Russian professional boxer, who as an amateur boxer among other achievements won gold at 2012 London Olympics at light heavyweight division.
Southpaw Mekhontsev won a silver medal in the 2004 Light-heavyweight Russian senior national championships losing to Mikhail Gala in the final and won another silver in 2005 again losing to Gala in the semi-final by 39:26.
The following year in 2006 he won bronze losing to Artur Beterbiyev 41:30 in the semi-final and in 2007 another bronze losing to Evgeni Makarenko.
Mekhontsev then moved up to the heavyweight 201 lbs limit division and won the 2008 Russian national championships beating Evgeniy Romanov in the final by a score of 19-5.
At the 2008 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Liverpool he defeated Nasi Hani (Macedonia) INJ RND 4, Stephen Simmons (boxer) (Scotland) 14-1, Petrisor Gananau (Romania) 5-2 and won Gold after defeating Armenia's Tsolak Ananikyan 9-2 in the final.
At the 2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships – Heavyweight he upset Clemente Russo and beat fellow southpaws Oleksandr Usyk in the semifinal and Osmay Acosta in the final.
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