Jaroslavas Jakšto [SEP] country of citizenship
Jaroslavas Jakšto
Jaroslavas Jakšto (born 7 August 1980) is a male amateur boxer from Lithuania best known for winning super heavyweight bronze at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula, Croatia. He was a 2004 Olympian and has qualified for the Olympics 2008.
Career.
Jakšto won a bronze medal in the same division at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula, Croatia.
He also participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics. He beat there Victor Bisbal 27-16 but was defeated in the second round
won the Chemiepokal tournament and was regarded as one of the favorites at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships, but had a bad draw and lost early to southpaw Olympic bronze medalist and eventual winner Roberto Cammarelle.
In 2008, he won the Strandja Cup once again beating PanAm Champion Robert Alfonso 19:9.
He beat Jaroslavas Jakšto and Marko Tomasović to qualify for the Olympics 2008.
There he was upset in his first bout by young Colombian Óscar Rivas.
In absence of Roberto Cammarelle, he beat Marko Tomasović, Roman