Boris Georgievich Kuznetsov (russian: Борис Георгиевич Кузнецов), 23 February 1947 – 3 May 2006) was a

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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
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in 1972 and was awarded the

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in the same year. He graduated from Astrakhan State Pedagogical Institute in 1971 and later opened a boxing school in Astrakhan.Boris Kuznetsov
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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 {{Russia-boxing-bio-stub