Adilbek Niyazymbetov is the new team captain in Kazakhstan

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Kazakhstan’s new team captain is Adilbek Niyazymbetov who is one of the strongest boxer at the light heavyweight (81kg) in the whole world. He was replaced Rio 2016 Olympic Games winner and AIBA World Champion Daniyar Yeleussinov in this position and will be leading Kazakhstan’s national teams in the main events in 2017.
Kazakhstan’s national icon Daniyar Yeleussinov turned to professional in the recent days and signed a contract with an Australian promoter therefore the head coach of the Kazakh national team Mr. Myrzagali Aitzhanov decided to give this important role to Adilbek Niyazymbetov who claimed seven medals in the elite World and Asian events since 2011.
Niyazymbetov was born in Nukus, Uzbekistan on May 19 in 1989 and began boxing at the age of 11 in 2000. He reached his first international success at the 2007 Asian Junior Boxing Championships in Almaty where he stopped all of his opponents including Turkmenistan’s Berdymurad Sahatov in the final of the light welterweight (64kg).
Adilbek Niyazymbetov joined to the national elite team in 2011 and in that year he claimed silver medal in the AIBA World Boxing Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan. Following five superb triumphs in the championships at the light heavyweight (81kg) he lost to only Cuba’s Julio Cesar La Cruz in the gold medal bout by 17:13.
Kazakhstan’s boxer repeated that performance in the London 2012 Olympic Games where he claimed silver after his loss by accepted scores to Russia’s Egor Mekhontcev in the final of the event. Niyazymbetov took silver in the Almaty 2013 AIBA World Boxing Championships in the front of the home crowd and also in the 2013 ASBC Asian Confederation Boxing Championships in Amman, Jordan.
Following his plenty of silver medals he claimed gold medal in the Incheon 2014 Asian Games and in the 2015 ASBC Asian Confederation Boxing Championships in Bangkok, Thailand. Mangystau region’s boxer delivered top performance in the road to the finals at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and loss to only in the gold medal bout against Julio Cesar La Cruz. After that final he decided to continue his career and ready to box in the main international events in 2017.