Career

At the qualifier he beat Mehdi Ghorbani and Dinesh Kumar, a loss to Jahon Qurbonov was meaningless. The final match was controversial in that the judges failed to record multiple points for Egan, the National Broadcasting Company announcers concurred on this point. Zhang is expected to fight in a "rematch" against Kenny Egan on the undercard of Bernard Dunne"s next WBA Super-Bantamweight title defence.

Beijing Olympic games results

2008 (as a Light heavyweight)

Defeated Mourad Sahraoui (Tunisia) 3-1

Defeated Artur Beterbiyev (Russia) 8-2

Defeated Abdelhafid Benchabla (Algeria) 12-7

Defeated Yerkebulan Shynaliyev (Kazakhstan) 4-4

Defeated Kenneth Egan (Ireland) 11-7

World amateur championships results

2007 (as a Light heavyweight)

Defeated Jasveer Singh (India) 17-3

Defeated Gottlieb Weiss (Germany) 17-13

Lost to Yerkebulan Shynaliyev (Kazakhstan) 5-14.

Achievements

• He won two matches at the world championships 2007 including an upset over Germany"s world military champion Gottlieb Weiss but lost to veteran Yerkabulan Shinaliev and fell one win short of direct qualification. In the final of the 2008 Beijing Olympics he beat Kenneth Egan of Ireland to win the gold medal.