Yauheni Karmilchyk: Boxing Career and Notable Fights
Yauheni Karmilchyk is a Belarusian amateur boxer who won bronze in the minimumweight division at the 2021 AIBA Men’s World Boxing Championships in Belgrade.
Belgrade 2021: two stoppage wins and a bronze
Karmilchyk advanced through the 46–48 kg bracket with a series of strong performances. In the quarterfinals, he stopped Mongolia’s Gan-Erdene Gankhuyag in the first round. Kazakhstan’s Temirtas Zhussupov defeated him by unanimous decision in the semifinal; the two bronze medals were awarded to the semifinalists.
The tournament result is a documented milestone in Karmilchyk’s amateur career. His bronze placed him alongside Georgia’s Sakhil Alakhverdovi on the podium, behind gold medalist Zhussupov and silver medalist Wuttichai Yurachai.
The Route Through the Minimumweight Draw
The official draw sheet lists 23 entrants in the 46–48 kilogram category. Karmilchyk opened with a first-round knockout of Sri Lanka’s Sajeewa Mutunaka at 51 seconds, then defeated Kenya’s Martin Manyara by a 4–1 points verdict. Those victories brought him into the quarterfinal against Gankhuyag, where a referee stoppage at 2:09 of the first round guaranteed his place among the medalists.
His three wins therefore included two first-round finishes and one contest decided by the judges. The semifinal loss came against the eventual champion, making his final placing part of a tournament run that ended only one round short of the gold-medal match. The bracket records the sequence more fully than the bronze-medal label alone.
Earlier European Championship Experience
Karmilchyk had also reached the light-flyweight semifinals at the 2017 European Championships. IBA’s contemporary report records his defeat to Russia’s Vasilii Egorov at 49 kilograms. That earlier international appearance provides context for the experience he brought to Belgrade four years later.
Additional records: 2021 minimumweight draw and 2017 European semifinal report.
Further career results
His international preparation also included the 2017 Usov Memorial tournament in Grodno, Belarus. The IBA’s athlete profile records him winning the 49-kilogram final against Ukraine’s Rostyslav Belostotskyi by a unanimous 5–0 decision.
Sources
Additional sources: https://www.iba.sport/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Profiles-V1.pdf
- IBA: 2021 World Championships medallists
- IBA: Karmilchyk–Gankhuyag quarterfinal result
- IBA: 2021 semifinal results
- Kazinform: Zhussupov advances to the final
