- Alexander Yagubkin
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Medal record Competitor for Soviet Union Men’s Boxing World Amateur Championships Gold 1982 Munich Heavyweight European Amateur Championships Gold 1981 Tampere Heavyweight Gold 1983 Sofia Heavyweight Gold 1985 Budapest Heavyweight Silver 1987 Turin Super Heavyweight Alexander G. Yagubkin (born 25 March 1961 in Donetsk, USSR) is a former amateur boxer, who won a gold medal at the 1982 World Amateur Boxing Championships and was honoured as a Master of Sports of the USSR.
1982 World champsionship
Yagubkin represented the USSR at the 1982 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Munich, West Germany. There he won the gold medal in the heavyweight division (– 91 kg). In the final he defeated by East Germany's Jürgen Fanghänel, after the referee stopped the contest in the third round.[1]
1987 European championships
Five years later, at the inaugural 1987 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Turin, Italy, this time Yagubkin competed at super heavyweight and won the silver medal title after losing to Ulli Kaden in the final.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Alexandr Yagubkin". Peoples.ru. http://www.peoples.ru/sport/boxer/alexandr_yagubkin/. Retrieved 13 March 2007.
World Amateur Boxing Champions in Men's Heavyweight 1974 – 1978: over 81 kg • 1978 – 2011: up to 91 kg1974: Teófilo Stevenson (CUB) · 1978: Teófilo Stevenson (CUB) · 1982: Alexander Yagubkin (URS) · 1986: Félix Savón (CUB) · 1989: Félix Savón (CUB) · 1991: Félix Savón (CUB) · 1993: Félix Savón (CUB) · 1995: Félix Savón (CUB) · 1997: Félix Savón (CUB) · 1999: Michael Bennett (USA) · 2001: Odlanier Solís (CUB) · 2003: Odlanier Solís (CUB) · 2005: Aleksandr Alekseyev (RUS) · 2007: Clemente Russo (ITA) · 2009: Egor Mekhontsev (RUS) · 2011: Oleksandr Usyk (UKR)
Categories:- Soviet boxers
- Ukrainian boxers
- Heavyweight boxers
- Super-heavyweight boxers
- Living people
- Olympic boxers of Ukraine
- Honoured Masters of Sports of the USSR
- 1961 births
- Ukrainian sportspeople stubs
- European boxing biography stubs
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