Vladimir Konstantinovich Safronov (russian: Владимир Константинович Сафронов) (29 December 1934 in
Ulan-Ude,
Buryat-Mongol ASSR
The Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (russian: Бурятская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика; bua, Буряадай Автономито Совет Социали ...
— 26 December 1979) was a
featherweight amateur boxer.
Safronov trained at the
Armed Forces sports society in
Chita,
Irkutsk
Irkutsk ( ; rus, Иркутск, p=ɪrˈkutsk; Buryat language, Buryat and mn, Эрхүү, ''Erhüü'', ) is the largest city and administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. With a population of 617,473 as of the 2010 Census, Irkutsk is ...
,
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 Olympics.
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.
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Safronov graduated from Moscow Poligraphy Institute in 1963 and worked as an art editor at Fizkultura i sport publisher.
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
1934 births
1979 deaths
Soviet male boxers
Olympic boxers of the Soviet Union
Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
Featherweight boxers
Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
Boxers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in boxing
People from Ulan-Ude
Russian male boxers
Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Buryatia
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