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Men's Thai Boxing at W.A.K.O. European Championships 2006 Skopje 67 kg

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The men's welterweight (67 kg/147.4 lbs) Thai-Boxing division at the W.A.K.O. European Championships 2006 in Skopje was the sixth lightest of the male Thai-Boxing tournaments and was the largest in terms of participants involving thirteen fighters. Each of the matches was three rounds of two minutes each and were fought under Thai-Boxing rules.

Due to the fact there were not enough competitors for a tournament designed for sixteen, three of the men had byes into the quarter finals. The tournament gold medal went to rising amateur Muay Thai star Vitaly Gurkov of Belarus who defeated Nikolay Bubnov of Russia by unanimous decision in the final to claim gold. Defeated semi finalists Mikhail Mishin from Russia and Nebojsa Denic from Serbia won bronze.

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Men's Thai-Boxing at W.A.K.O. European Championships 2006 Skopje -67 kg Wikipedia