Sherali Dostiev: Tajikistan’s World Medalist and Olympian
Tajikistan’s Sheralī Dostiev competed in the light-flyweight division at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He was eliminated in his opening bout by Cuba’s Yampier Hernández, who went on to win bronze.
From Dushanbe to the Athens Olympics
Dostiev was born in Dushanbe on January 12, 1985. He represented Tajikistan at two Olympic Games, beginning with Athens in 2004. He qualified for that tournament by winning the Asian Olympic qualifying event in Guangzhou, defeating Thailand’s Suban Pannon in the final.
His Athens campaign ended against the Philippines’ Harry Tañamor in the opening round. Tañamor won on points, leaving Dostiev tied for seventeenth in the light-flyweight standings. Olympedia also records Dostiev as Tajikistan’s flagbearer at the closing ceremony.
World bronze between Olympic appearances
In 2005, Dostiev won a bronze medal at the World Amateur Boxing Championships in Mianyang, China. That achievement came between his two Olympic campaigns and remains distinct from his Olympic results, neither of which produced a medal.
He returned to the Games in Beijing in the same 48-kilogram light-flyweight category. Hernández defeated him 12–1 in their opening contest, and Dostiev again finished tied for seventeenth.
The sequence gives his international career a clearer shape: qualification success and a first Olympics in 2004, a world championship podium in 2005, then another Olympic appearance in 2008. His nationality and the distinction between world and Olympic medals are essential to describing that record accurately.
Sources
- World championship medal and Olympic qualification overview
- Olympedia athlete record
- Beijing 2008 light-flyweight results
Tags
Boxing, Boxing History
