Serik Konakbayev

Serik Kerimbekuly Konakbaev (Kazakh: Серік Керімбекұлы Қонақбаев, Serık Kerımbekūly Qonaqbaev; Russian: Серик Керимбекович Конакбаев; born October 25, 1959, in Pavlodar, Kazakh SSR) is a retired Kazakh amateur boxer, who represented the USSR at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. There he won the silver medal in the light welterweight division (– 63.5 kg), after being defeated in the final by Patrizio Oliva of Italy. Two years later he once again captured the silver medal, this time at the World Championships in Munich, West Germany.

Serik Konakbayev

Serik Konakabayev (left) and Jose Aguilar
Medal record
Men’s amateur boxing
Representing  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1980 Moscow Light Welterweight
Friendship Games
Bronze medal – third place 1984 Havana Welterweight
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 1982 Munich Welterweight
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 1979 New York Light Welterweight
Gold medal – first place 1981 Montreal Welterweight
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 1979 Cologne Light Welterweight
Gold medal – first place 1981 Tampere Welterweight

Olympics

1980 Olympic results

1984 Olympics
Further information: 1984 Summer Olympics boycott

Konakbayev came to attention of Howard Cosell, and after the Soviet Olympic authorities announced the USSR team wouldn't show up at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, where Konakbayev had genuine chances to compete for the gold medal at the welterweight event of the Games, Cosell said:[1]

As for the Soviets, well, they are no longer dominant in boxing, they have a couple of good-ones, one of them a man named Konakbayev.

Konakbaev (right) and Mark Breland (left) in 2010

References
  1. Howard Cosell on the 1984 Summer Olympics boxing.
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