Career
In 2004, he became junior flyweight European U17 champion. In 2006 the aggressive southpaw won the Junior World Championships, where he beat future bantam world champion and fellow southpaw Sergey Vodopyanov.
The following year at the (seniors) World Championships 2007 in Chicago he beat Abner Cotto in the first round, Theodoros Papazov, Arturo Santos Reyes, and Li Yang in the semifinal to reach a fight against Russian favorite Albert Selimov, another southpaw, to whom he lost, 12:16.
Lomachenko won gold at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. He avenged his 2007 World Championship defeat to Selimov in the first round. Lomachenko beat his five opponents by an astonishing 58-13 on the way to his first gold medal, and was subsequently named the outstanding boxer for the tournament and awarded the Val Barker Trophy.
In 2012 London Olympics he won his second consecutive Gold Medal. He defeat Han Soon-Chul of South Korea in the final by 19-9.
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