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Denys Poyatsyka
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Born	April 29, 1985 (age 39); Krementschuk, Poltava Oblast
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Men's amateur boxing
Representing Ukraine
European Championships

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Denys Poyatsyka (Ukrainian: Денис Пояцика; born April 29, 1985, in Krementschuk, Poltava Oblast) is a Ukrainian amateur boxer, best known for winning the European title at 201 lbs in 2006.

Career

Poyatsyka started to box in 1995. In 2004, he moved up to light heavy from middleweight, although he didn't win the national title.

In 2006 he moved up to heavyweight with a limit of 201 lbs and won the national title. Due to this, he was sent to the Euro championships. Here he surprised everyone by not only winning the whole tournament but by displaying tremendous punching power, even managing to stop four out of five foes including Elchin Alizade and usually durable Russian top favorite Roman Romanchuk.

Afterwards he couldn't repeat this triumph, 2007 he was outpointed by Alizade at the world championships in Chicago and didn't medal. In addition to this he wasn't sent to the Olympics and was replaced by Oleksandr Usyk. At the Euros 2008 he was beaten by Armenian Tsolak Ananikyan.

At the 2010 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Moscow, Russia he won the bronze medal, in the Semis he lost to Egor Mekhontsev from Russia.

He retired in 2016 and started working as a youth boxing coach in Kremenchuk.^[1]

References

^ Martsenychyn, Dmytro (7 February 2017). "Усик, Ломаченко та компанія. Де зараз легендарні боксери "Українських отаманів"" [Usyk, Lomachenko and company. Where are the legendary boxers of "Ukraine Otamans" now?]. Espreso TV (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 12 April 2023.

External links

Euro 2006
Euro 2008
Denys Poyatsyka at BoxRec (registration required)

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[1] Martsenychyn, Dmytro (7 February 2017). "Усик, Ломаченко та компанія. Де зараз легендарні боксери "Українських отаманів"" [Usyk, Lomachenko and company. Where are the legendary boxers of "Ukraine Otamans" now?]. Espreso TV (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 12 April 2023.

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-'''Denys Poyatsyka''' ({{lang-uk|Денис Пояцика}}; born April 29, 1985, in [[Krementschuk]], [[Poltava Oblast]]) is a Ukrainian [[amateur boxing|amateur boxer]], best known for winning the European title at 201&nbsp;lbs in 2006.
+'''Denys Poyatsyka''' ({{langx|uk|Денис Пояцика}}; born April 29, 1985, in [[Krementschuk]], [[Poltava Oblast]]) is a Ukrainian [[amateur boxing|amateur boxer]], best known for winning the European title at 201 lbs in 2006.
 ==Career==
-Poyatsyka started to box in 1995. In 2004 he was still competing at middleweight then he moved up to light heavy but wasn't the #1 in his country.
+Poyatsyka started to box in 1995. In 2004, he moved up to light heavy from middleweight, although he didn't win the national title.
-In 2006 he moved up to heavyweight with a limit of 201&nbsp;lbs and won the national title therefore he was sent to the Euro championships.
+In 2006 he moved up to heavyweight with a limit of 201 lbs and won the national title. Due to this, he was sent to the Euro championships.
 Here he surprised everyone by not only winning the whole tournament but by displaying tremendous punching power, even managing to stop four out of five foes including [[Elchin Alizade]] and usually durable Russian top favorite [[Roman Romanchuk (boxer)|Roman Romanchuk]].
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