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Full name | Mehmet Tursun Chong (Chinese: 琼·麦麦提图尔孙) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | China | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Kashgar, Xinjiang | January 13, 1988|||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight class | Light Welterweight | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Chinese Vanguard Sports Association | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Mehmet Tursun Chong (Uyghur: مەمەتتۇرسۇن چوڭ, romanized: Memet Tursun Chong; Chinese: 琼·麦麦提图尔孙; pinyin: Qióng Màimàitítúěrsūn; born January 13, 1988, in Kashgar, Xinjiang) is a Chinese amateur boxer, who qualified for the 2008 Olympics in his native country at Light welterweight. He lost his opening match to Gennady Kovalev of Russia on a 15-8 decision. Qiong is an ethnic Uyghur.[1]
He qualified for the 2012 Olympics in London at welterweight. He again lost in the first round, to another Russian boxer, Andrey Zamkovoy.[2]