Aleksandr Zasukhin
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Born | 15 July 1928 Yekaterinburg, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||
Died | 15 August 2012[1] | (aged 84)|||||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||||
Club | Dynamo Yekaterinburg | |||||||||||||
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Aleksandr Fedoseyevich Zasukhin (Russian: Александр Федосеевич Засухин, 15 July 1928 – 15 August 2012) was a Soviet boxer who won two silver medals at the European championships of 1953 and 1955. He competed at the 1952 Olympics, but was eliminated in the second bout.[2] During his career Zasukhin won four national titles (1950, 1954, 1956, 1957) and 165 bouts out of 185.[3]
Zasukhin graduated from the Krasnodar Institute of Physical Education, where he defended a PhD in pedagogy and became professor. In the 1960s he moved to Perm, and later worked as a boxing coach in Bulgaria.[3] His younger brother Aleksei also won a European silver medal in boxing.
References[]
- ^ Mention of Aleksandr Zasukhin's death (in Russian)
- ^ Aleksandr Zasukhin. sports-reference.com
- ^ a b ЗАСУХИН АЛЕКСАНДР ФЕДОСЕЕВИЧ. sportufo.ru
Categories:
- 1928 births
- 2012 deaths
- Olympic boxers of the Soviet Union
- Boxers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Russian male boxers
- Lightweight boxers
- Russian boxing biography stubs