KYIV (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko has congratulated WBO, IBF and IBO World Heavyweight Champion Volodymyr Klychko on another brilliant victory.
Presidential press secretary Iryna Vannykova said this at a briefing in Kyiv on Monday.
“The head of state wished the outstanding sportsman good health, inexhaustible inspiration and new victories in the name of Ukraine, ” she said.
“Ukrainians are proud of you – the undefeatable fighter who contributes to the strength and the glory of the nation,” Vannykova cited Yuschenko as saying.
Klychko defended his IBF heavyweight title by stopping Hasim Rahman in the seventh round in Mannheim, Germany on the night of December 14.
