The Best achievements of the National Federations – Kyrgyzstan
The Best achievements of the National Federations is the new PR campaign of the Asian Boxing Confederation and the introduction of the Kyrgyzstan Boxing and their best results are the next in the series.
Kyrgyzstan produced impressive results by the time of the Soviet Union when Nikolay Lodin, Valeriy Grishkovets, and Vladimir Roslov were their first top boxers. Their golden age was at the ‘1980s when Ikram Mirbabayev, Orzubek Nazarov, Nurlan Abdykalykov, Adylkan Bekbolotov, Abdybakyt Khalmurzaev, Yevgeniy Alekseyev and Andrei Kurnyavka were their stars and champions.
The capital of the Kyrgyz SSR, Frunze hosted several Soviet Union national events in the 1970s and 1980s which supported the development of their boxers. Andrei Kurnyavka earned a gold medal at the 1989 Moscow World Boxing Championships representing the Soviet Union.
Kyrgyzstan separated from the Soviet Union in the second part of 1991 and set up its own independent National Boxing Federation in 1992. Kyrgyzstan competed at the 1992 Ahmet Cömert Tournament in Turkey under their national flag at the very first time. In that strong international event Taalaybek Kadyraliyev claimed bronze medal in Istanbul which was the first success of the Central Asian country.
Kyrgyzstan joined to the AIBA World Cup and to the Asian Games in 1994 and their Taalaybek Kadyraliyev acquired a bronze in the first event. Kyrgyzstan earned altogether four bronze medals in the history of the Asian Games until 2023.
The independent Kyrgyz team competed first at the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games following their successful qualification process. Kyrgyzstan qualified three boxers to the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games and after a few quarter-finalists their first ever medal, a silver was achieved by Munarbek Seyitbek Uulu in the Paris 2024 edition.
Kyrgyzstan’s flyweight sensation, Azat Usenaliev was medal contender before the Amman 2013 ASBC Asian Boxing Championships but he defeated all of his Filipino, Kazakh and Uzbek rivals to take the first ever gold medal for Kyrgyzstan in the history of the Asian Championships.
Kyrgyzstan’s Nuradin Rustambek Uulu defeated all of his rivals at the Ulaanbaatar 2019 ASBC Asian Youth Boxing Championships which was the Central Asian country’s first title in this 17-18-year-old age group.
Following that success, Kyrgyzstan’s boxing life quickly increased and their schoolboys, junior, youth and U22 talents all continued the gold medal pathway in the recent years. Their most successful events were the 2024 ASBC Asian Junior & Schoolboys & Schoolgirls Boxing Championships in Al Ain and the 2025 ASBC Asian U22 & Youth Boxing Championships in Colombo.
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