At the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships he qualified for the Olympics by winning silver. He beat
Jeysson Monroy,
Meng Fanlong and
Elshod Rasulov but lost the final to Cuban
Julio César la Cruz.
At the 2012 Olympics he beat
Carlos Góngora from Ecuador, Iranian
Ehsan Rouzbahani 13–10, and Ukrainian
Oleksandr Gvozdyk 13:13 on countback before losing the final to Russian favorite
Egor Mekhontsev 15:15, again on countback. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he beat
Mikhail Dauhaliavets,
Teymur Mammadov and
Joshua Buatsi before losing to
Julio César La Cruz in the final. ==References==