Mehmet Tursun Chong (Pinyin: Qióng Mài Màitítúěrsūn) | |
Fullname: | Mehmet Tursun Chong (Chinese: 琼·麦麦提图尔孙) |
Club: | Chinese Vanguard Sports Association |
Birth Date: | 13 January 1988 |
Birth Place: | Kashgar, Xinjiang |
Weight: | 64kg (141lb) |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Mehmet Tursun Chong (; ; born January 13, 1988, in Kashgar, Xinjiang) is a Chinese amateur boxer, who qualified for the 2008 Olympics in his native country at Light welterweight. He lost his opening match to Gennady Kovalev of Russia on a 15-8 decision. Qiong is an ethnic Uyghur.[1]
He qualified for the 2012 Olympics in London at welterweight. He again lost in the first round, to another Russian boxer, Andrey Zamkovoy.[2]