Vladimir Safronov
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![]() | 1956 Melbourne | Featherweight |
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![]() | 1957 Prague | Featherweight |
Vladimir Konstantinovich Safronov (Russian: Владимир Константинович Сафронов) (29 December 1934 in Ulan-Ude, Buryat-Mongol ASSR — 26 December 1979[1]) was a Russian featherweight boxer.
Safronov trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Chita, Irkutsk, Moscow. He became the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1957 and was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor in the same year. He became the first boxer of the USSR to win a gold medal at the Olympics.[2] He won gold in Boxing at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne in the featherweight division (– 57 kg). During his career Safronov won 564 fights out of 565.[3]
Safronov graduated from Moscow Poligraphy Institute in 1963 and worked as an art editor at Fizkultura i sport (physical culture and sports) publisher.[3]
1956 Olympic results
Below is the record of Vladimir Safronov, a featherweight boxer from the Soviet Union who competed at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne:
- Round of 32: bye
- Round of 16: Defeated Agostino Cossia (Italy) points
- Quarterfinal: Defeated Andre de Souza (France) points
- Semifinal: Defeated Henryk Niedzwiedzki (Poland) points
- Final: Defeated Thomas Nicholls (Great Britain) points (Won gold medal)
References
External links
- Olympic profile
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- 1904:
Oliver Kirk (USA)
- 1908:
Richard Gunn (GBR)
- 1912: not held
- 1920:
Paul Fritsch (FRA)
- 1924:
Jackie Fields (USA)
- 1928:
Bep van Klaveren (NED)
- 1932:
Carmelo Robledo (ARG)
- 1936:
Oscar Casanovas (ARG)
- 1948:
Ernesto Formenti (ITA)
- 1952:
Ján Zachara (TCH)
- 1956:
Vladimir Safronov (URS)
- 1960:
Francesco Musso (ITA)
- 1964:
Stanislav Stepashkin (URS)
- 1968:
Antonio Roldán (MEX)
- 1972:
Boris Kuznetsov (URS)
- 1976:
Ángel Herrera (CUB)
- 1980:
Rudi Fink (GDR)
- 1984:
Meldrick Taylor (USA)
- 1988:
Giovanni Parisi (ITA)
- 1992:
Andreas Tews (GER)
- 1996:
Somluck Kamsing (THA)
- 2000:
Bekzat Sattarkhanov (KAZ)
- 2004:
Aleksei Tishchenko (RUS)
- 2008:
Vasiliy Lomachenko (UKR)
- 2012–2016: not held
- 2020:
Albert Batyrgaziev (ROC)
- 2024:
Abdumalik Khalokov (UZB)
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