Career
He was a 2004 Olympian and has qualified for the Olympics 2008. He also participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics. He beat there Victor Bisbal 27-16 but was defeated in the second round of the Super heavyweight (+91 kg) division by Egypt"s eventual runner-up Mohamed Aly.
At the World Championships 2007 he lost to Vyacheslav Glazkov inside the distance.
At the first Olympic qualifier he lost to Kubrat Pulev, at the second qualifier he beat Robert Helenius and Yousef Abdelghani to qualify. In Beijing he lost to David Price when he had to quit with a leg injury after the first round, he was trailing 1:3.