Daouda Sow (boxer)

French boxer

Daouda Sow

Born

January 19, 1983 (1983-01-19) (age 41)

Roubaix, France

Medal record

Men's boxing

Representing France
Olympic Games
	2008 Beijing	Lightweight

Daouda Sow (born 19 January 1983 in Roubaix) is an amateur boxer from France. He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the lightweight division.^[1]^[2] Sow signed with the AIBA professional league, called AIBA Pro Boxing (APB),^[3] which launched in autumn of 2013.

Boxing career

At the first Olympic qualifier the southpaw lost to Ukrainian Oleksandr Klyuchko but qualified at the second tournament. At Beijing he surprisingly medaled by beating Olympic silver medalist Kim Song-Guk, José Pedraza, local Hu Qing and 2005 world champ Yordenis Ugás and made it to the final. There he was edged out by Russian 2004 Olympic Champion Aleksei Tishchenko 9:11.

Olympic Games results

2008 (as a lightweight)

Defeated Kim Song-Guk (North Korea) 13-3
Defeated José Pedraza (Puerto Rico) 13-9
Defeated Hu Qing (China) 9-6
Defeated Yordenis Ugás (Cuba) 15-8
Lost to Aleksei Tishchenko

World amateur championships results

2007 (as a lightweight)

Lost to Romal Amanov (Azerbaijan) 6-19

References

^ "Athlete Biography: Daouda SOW". beijing2008.cn. Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games. Archived from the original on 2 March 2009.
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Daouda Sow". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
^ "AIBA Professional Boxing (APB)". AIBA.org. Archived from the original on 23 December 2012.