Oleksandr Klyuchko

Oleksandr Klyuchko
Personal information
Full name Олександр Ключко
Nationality  Ukraine
Born (1984-07-11) July 11, 1984
Mykolaiv, Mykolaiv Oblast
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 60 kg (130 lb)
Sport
Sport Boxing
Rated at Lightweight
Club Dynamo Mykolaiv

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.

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 semi final 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.


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