Serik Konakbayev

Serik Kerimbekuly Konakbaev 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, 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.

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Olympics

1980 Olympic results

Defeated Simion Cuţov by unanimous decision, 5–0
Defeated Imre Bácskai RET 2
Defeated José Angel Molina by walkover
Defeated José Aguilar by majority decision, 4–1
Lost to Patrizio Oliva by majority decision, 1–4

1984 Olympics

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: