Full name Олександр Ключко Name Oleksandr Klyuchko Weight 60 kg | Sport Boxing Height 1.70 m Nationality Ukraine Role Boxer Rated at Lightweight | |
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Born July 11, 1984 (age 40) ( 1984-07-11 ) | ||
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.