- Oleg Grigoryev
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Oleg Grigoryev Personal information Born December 25, 1937 Medal recordMen’s Boxing Competitor for the 
Soviet UnionOlympic Games Gold 1960 Rome Bantamweight European Amateur Championships Gold 1957 Prague Bantamweight Gold 1963 Moscow Bantamweight Gold 1965 Berlin Bantamweight Oleg Georgievich Grigoryev (Russian: Олег Георгиевич Григорьев) (born December 25, 1937 in Moscow[1]) was a bantamweight boxer from the Soviet Union, who won the gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics. In the finale he defeated Italian Primo Zamparini, who won the silver.
Grigoryev was born in Moscow. He began boxing at the age of 13, training in Moscow at Trudovye Rezervy until 1961, and then at the Armed Forces sports society. Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR since 1960, Grigoryev was three-times European Champion(1957, 1963, 1965); in 1959 he won silver medal of European Championship. He is also six-times USSR Champion. During his career as a boxer, he has won 176 fights and lost only 20.[1]
Grigoryev was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1960) and the title "Prominent boxer of USSR". He graduated from Ivanovo Pedagogical Institute in 1967.
References
- ^ a b (Russian) Great Olympic Encyclopedia, vol.1-2, Moscow:Olympia Press Publisher, 2006, entry on "Олег Григорьев", available online
External links
- (Russian) Biography
Olympic Boxing Champions in Men's Bantamweight 1904: 105-115 lb (47.6-52.2 kg), 1908: - 116 lb (52.6 kg), 1920-1928: 112-118 lb (50.8-53.5 kg), 1932+1936: 112-119 lb (50.8-54.0 kg), 1948-2008: 51-54 kg 1904: Oliver Kirk (USA) • 1908: Henry Thomas (GBR) • 1920: Clarence Walker (RSA) • 1924: William Smith (RSA) • 1928: Vittorio Tamagnini (ITA) • 1932: Horace Gwynne (CAN) • 1936: Ulderico Sergo (ITA) • 1948: Tibor Csík (HUN) • 1952: Pentti Hämäläinen (FIN) • 1956: Wolfgang Behrendt (EUA) • 1960: Oleg Grigoryev (URS) • 1964: Takao Sakurai (JPN) • 1968: Valerian Sokolov (URS) • 1972: Orlando Martínez (CUB) • 1976: Gu Yong-Ju (PRK) • 1980: Juan Hernández (CUB) • 1984: Maurizio Stecca (ITA) • 1988: Kennedy McKinney (USA) • 1992: Joel Casamayor (CUB) • 1996: István Kovács (HUN) • 2000 - 2004: Guillermo Rigondeaux (CUB) • 2008: Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan (MGL)
European Amateur Boxing Champions in Men's Bantamweight 1924 – 2010: up to 54 kg 1924: Jean Ces (FRA) · 1925: Archie Rule (ENG) · 1927: Kurt Dalchow (GER) · 1928: Vittorio Tamagnini (ITA) · 1930: Janos Szeles (HUN) · 1932: Hans Ziglarski (GER) · 1934: István Enekes (HUN) · 1937: Ulderico Sergo (ITA) · 1939: Ulderico Sergo (ITA) · 1942: Arturo Paoletti (ITA) · 1947: László Bogacs (HUN) · 1949: Giovanni Zuddas (ITA) · 1951: Vincenzo dall'Osso (ITA) · 1953: Zenon Stefaniuk (POL) · 1955: Zenon Stefaniuk (POL) · 1957: Oleg Grigoryev (URS) · 1959: Horst Rascher (FRG) · 1961: Sergey Sivko (URS) · 1963: Oleg Grigoryev (URS) · 1965: Oleg Grigoryev (URS) · 1967: Nicolae Giju (ROM) · 1969: Aurel Dumitrescu (ROM) · 1971: Tibor Badari (HUN) · 1973: Aldo Cosentino (ITA) · 1975: Viktor Rybakov (URS) · 1977: Stefan Förster (GDR) · 1979: Nikolay Chrapzov (URS) · 1981: Viktor Miroshnichenko (URS) · 1983: Yuriy Aleksandrov (URS) · 1985: Ljubiša Simić (YUG) · 1987: Aleksandar Hristov (BUL) · 1989: Serafim Todorov (BUL) · 1991: Serafim Todorov (BUL) · 1993: Raimkul Malakhbekov (RUS) · 1996: István Kovács (HUN) · 1998: Sergey Danilchenko (UKR) · 2000: Agasi Agaguloglu (TUR) · 2002: Khavazhi Khatsigov (BLR) · 2004: Gennady Kovalev (RUS) · 2006: Ali Aliyev (RUS) · 2008: Luke Campbell (ENG) · 2010: Eduard Abzalimov (RUS)
Categories:- 1937 births
- Living people
- Honoured Masters of Sports of the USSR
- Soviet boxers
- Bantamweight boxers
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Boxers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers of the Soviet Union
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Sportspeople from Moscow
- Armed Forces sports society athletes
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Soviet Olympic medalist stubs
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- European boxing biography stubs
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