Vasyl Lomachenko

Vasyl Lomachenko

Vasyl Anatoliyovich Lomachenko (Ukrainian: Василь Анатолійович Ломаченко, born February 17, 1988 in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi) is a Ukrainian amateur boxer who won the silver medal at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships, gold medals at the 2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships and 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships, and the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the featherweight division and 2012 London Olympics in the Lightweight division. Lomachenko is coached by his father Anatoly. Lomachenko claims that if his father hadn't been a boxing coach he probably would have chosen to play ice hockey professionally. Lomachenko has signed up for the new AIBA professional league, called AIBA Pro Boxing (APB), which will launch in autumn 2013.