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AEK Athens Boxing Club
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AEK Athens Boxing Club was founded in 1969. Its an amateur club run by an ephor appointed by AEK. The place is currently held by Nikos Koenakis. National success AEK has won a total of six championships in Greece. Valerios Chartsislava won the Greek championship in the 63,5 kg category five times in a row (1998,1999,2000,2001,2002). Charalampos Papadopoulos won the Greek championship in the 81 kg category in 2001. AEK finished second in the First Division championship that took place in December, 2002 in Athens. Antipas Arzoumanidis and Valerios Chartsislava won the gold medals in the 71 kg and 67 kg categories respectively. International success Although the clubs has yet to win any title in international level, its athletes have done so. Mediterranean Games Tigran Ouzlian won the bronze medal in the 1997 Mediterranean Games. European level Tigran Ouzlian won the bronze medal in 1998 in the European championship that took place in Minsk, Belarus World level Tigran Ouzlian earned the fifth place in the 1995 world championship. Mikaelian won the fourth place in 54kgr category of the 2001 World championship that took place in Belfast, Ireland. Olympics Appart from honours won on Greek level the clubs has some successes on tinternational level as well. Two of the clubs boxers, Two AEK athletes,Tigran Ouzlian and Artour Mikaelian, have participated Olympics games. Ouzlian in bot the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics and Mikaelian only in Sydney. Tigran Ouzlian managed in 2000 to become the first Greek boxer who got so close to the Olympic medal with his fifth place in Sydney. Team roster Coaches * Pantazis Markakis * Artour Mikaelian Boxers * Evgenia Tasidou * Giorgos Efstratiadis * Prionas Dimitris * Christos Michalopoulos * Giorgos Synetos * Kostas Kostopoulos * Dimitris Misailidis * Kostas Bratsakos * Panagiotis Balios * Antipas Arzoumanidis * Charis Kontogiorgis * Antonis Kapiris Honours Greek league men: *1978, 1980, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2006. Notable boxers * Mike Arnaoutis * Tigran Ouzlian * Mikaelian Artour See Also
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