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Nationality | Ukraine (until 2000) Russia (since 2000) |
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Born |
Stryi, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR |
3 June 1979||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 8 September 2016 Odessa, Ukraine |
(aged 37)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
Roman Romanchuk
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Roman Romanovich Romanchuk (Russian: Роман Романович Романчук; 3 June 1979 – 8 September 2016) was a Ukrainian (until 2000) and Russian (since 2000) amateur boxer. He won silver at super heavyweight during the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships and helped the Russian team win the 2005 Boxing World Cup. He also had success as an amateur kickboxer.
Romanchuk was born in Stryi, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, in 1979. Southpaw Romanchuk, whose father also was a successful amateur boxer, started to box in 1997. He later gained Russian citizenship in 2000. In 2002 and 2003, he finished second at 201 lbs in the national championships to fellow southpaw Aleksandr Alekseyev. He won the title in 2004 and 2006.
Romanchuk participated in the open weight class super heavyweight at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships where he defeated Rustam Saidov and future world champion Roberto Cammarelle 34:27 in the semis but lost the final to Odlanier Solis whom he had beaten on other occasions. The same year he was part of the Russian team which won the 2005 Boxing World Cup.
Back at 201 lbs, he was sensationally upset at the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships by Ukrainian puncher Denis Poyatsika who managed to stop him in the final. In 2007, he surprisingly lost to his compatriot and fellow southpaw Rakhim Chakhkeiv and could not go to the World Championships in Chicago.