Career
He failed to qualify for the 2004 Summer Olympics by ending up in third place at the 1st AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Starting with 2006 he competed at featherweight. After being beaten by Azerbaijani boxer Shanin Imranov in the semi final of a European qualifying tournament he qualified for the Olympics by defeating English boxer Stephen Smith in the third place box official