ATHENS -- He was the last Canadian standing. Now there are none.

"I don't take any pride being the last one," Andrew Kooner said yesterday.

"We're all on the same team. The bottom line is that we all came here and none of us won a medal."

Kooner, a bantamweight from Tecumseh, Ont., lost to Bahodirjon Sooltonov of Uzbekistan yesterday.

"I knew it would be a tough fight," Kooner said. "He's ranked third in the world. The odds were stacked against me.

"I did what I could do, but I just couldn't find the solution to beat him."

Kooner, who finished ninth at the Sydney Olympics and ninth at the 2001 and 2003 world championships, failed to make it to the medal round but in making it to the quarter-finals went farther in the Olympics than ever before.

But that's it for the amateur ranks for the fighter who won silver and bronze medals at the past two Commonwealth Games.

"I stayed in for another four years." Kooner said. "I'm going to call it an amateur career. This was my last bout at the Olympic Games. I was hoping to conclude with a medal. But it's on to the pros now."