Boris Georgievich Kuznetsov (russian: Борис Георгиевич Кузнецов), 23 February 1947 – 3 May 2006) was a
Russian
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featherweight
Featherweight is a weight class in the combat sports of boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts, and Greco-Roman wrestling.
Boxing
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History
A featherweight boxer weighs in at a limit of . In the early days of the division, this ...
boxer. He won a gold medal at the 1972 Olympics and a silver medal at the 1974 World Championships. Domestically he won the Soviet featherweight title in 1972 and 1974 and placed second in 1970 and 1971. During his career he won 237 fights out of 249.
[Profile in the Olympic Encyclopedia]
/ref> He became the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR
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in 1972 and was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor
The Order of the Badge of Honour (russian: орден «Знак Почёта», orden "Znak Pochyota") was a civilian award of the Soviet Union.
It was established on 25 November 1935, and was conferred on citizens of the USSR for outstanding ...
in the same year.
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1947 births
2006 deaths
Soviet male boxers
Olympic boxers of the Soviet Union
Sportspeople from Astrakhan
Boxers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
Olympic medalists in boxing
Russian male boxers
AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Featherweight boxers
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