Exclusive interview with Kazakhstan’s Olympic Champion Daniyar Yeleussinov who is focusing to Tokyo now

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Kazakhstan’s Daniyar Yeleussinov is an iconic boxer not only in his country but in the whole world following his top performance in the recent six years. Kazakhstan has been dominating the Welterweight class (69kg) in the Olympic Games since 2004 and after Bakhtiyar Artayev, Bakhyt Sarsekbayev and Serik Sapiyev now Daniyar Yeleussinov is the reigning champion. Following his great title the Asian Boxing Confederation has done with him an exclusive interview about his future.
Besides to his gold medal in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games he won the Almaty 2013 AIBA World Boxing Championships, two editions of the ASBC Asian Confederation Boxing Championships in Amman and in Bangkok while he stepped up to the top of the podium in the Asian Games in 2010 and in 2014. Yeleussinov celebrated his title in Kazakhstan and he was involved also to the Egeman Kazakhstan new commercial video.
“Thanks for Asian Boxing Confederation for all congratulations after my successes in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. I am very pleased I became the Olympic Champion which was my dream since my childhood when I began boxing. The boxing tournament of the whole Olympic Games was in the highest level and I enjoyed my competition in Brazil.
All of the Olympic competitors were strong because the qualification system was hard for anyone. There were not any weak boxers in Rio de Janeiro, only the bests therefore I had to do my top performance in all of the contests to win the Olympic title. I enjoyed the recent weeks, celebrated in Kazakhstan and decided a lot of things.
I decided to continue my boxing career at least until the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games to get my second title. Kazakhstan never had any two-time Olympic Champion in boxing and I would like to be the first one. In that road firstly I will miss the Kazakhstan National Boxing Championships in Pavlodar but I will be there in the 2017 AIBA World Boxing Championships in Hamburg and also in the 2017 ASBC Asian Confederation Boxing Championships,” said Kazakhstan’s national hero Olympic Champion Daniyar Yeleussinov.