Vyacheslav Evgenevich Yanovskiy (russian: Вячеслав Евгеньевич Яновский sometimes spelt ''Viatcheslav Ianovski'', born August 24, 1957, in

Vitebsk Vitebsk or Viciebsk (russian: Витебск, ; be, Ві́цебск, ; , ''Vitebsk'', lt, Vitebskas, pl, Witebsk), is a city in Belarus. The capital of the Vitebsk Region, it has 366,299 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth-largest c ...

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) is a

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ian boxer who won a Light Welterweight Gold Medal at the

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for the

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. He began boxing at the age of 13. In 1988 he became the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR. During his amateur career he trained at

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1988 Olympic results

*Round of 64: Defeated Søren Søndergaard (Denmark) referee stopped contest in second round *Round o 32: Defeated Rashid Matumla (Tanzania) referee stopped contest in third round *Round of 16: Defeated

Ludovic Proto Ludovic Proto (born 30 April 1965 in Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe) is a French former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 1998. At welterweight, he held the European and French titles. He challenged for the European light middleweight t ...

(France) on points, 5-0 *Quarterfinal: Defeated

Anthony Mwamba Anthony Mwamba (8 August 1960 – 21 January 2021) was a Zambian boxer. He competed in the men's light welterweight event at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Mwamba won a bronze medal in the welterweight (67 kg) division at the 1990 Commonwealth ...

(Zambia) on points, 5-0 *Semifinal: Defeated

Reiner Gies Reiner Gies (born March 12, 1963, in Kaiserslautern, West Germany) is a former German boxer who won a Light Welterweight Bronze Medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics for West Germany. Four years earlier, when Los Angeles, California Los A ...

(West Germany) first-round knockout *Final: Defeated

Grahame Cheney Grahame Francis "Spike" Cheney (born 27 April 1969) is a retired Australian boxer, who won a light welterweight (63.5 kg) silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Cheney also won a bronze medal in the welterweight (67 kg) divisio ...

(Australia) on points, 5-0 (won gold medal)

Pro career

Yanovskiy turned professional in 1990 and did not lose in his first 26 fights. In 1995, he was KO'd by journeyman Edwin Murillo and got retired in 1997 with a career record of 30-1-1.

External links

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Profile in the Olympic Encyclopedia

Biography
1957 births Living people Sportspeople from Vitebsk Soviet male boxers Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Olympic boxers of the Soviet Union Boxers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Dynamo sports society athletes Olympic medalists in boxing Belarusian male boxers Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Light-welterweight boxers {{USSR-Olympic-medalist-stub