Frolov, Evgeny Vasilyevich

Yevgeny Frolov was born on June 14, 1941 in Moscow . Already at a young age I became interested in boxing, at first I was working under the guidance of coach Mikhail Itkin , then I went to the Vladimir Trenin hall - both subsequently became honored coaches. He first declared himself at the 1961 USSR Championship, when he managed to get to the third bronze place in the welterweight category, and two years later won the champion title. Thanks to a series of successful performances, he won the right to defend the honor of the country at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo , went to the finals, but in the decisive match on points he lost to Pole Jerzy Kulea and was forced to be content with silver - for this achievement he received from the boxing federation the title of “ Outstanding Boxer ” and " Honored Master of Sports ."

In 1965, Frolov again won the national championship and went to the European Championship in Berlin, where, however, dropped out of the fight for medals at the quarter-finals stage, was again defeated by Polish boxer Jerzy Kulei. Over the next four years, the athlete invariably held the title of champion of the Soviet Union and in 1968 went to the Olympic Games in Mexico City - this time his matches were not so successful, in the quarterfinals he could not pass the Cuban Enrique Regueyferosa . In 1969, Yevgeny Frolov won the USSR Championship for the last time (now the sixth on his own account), after which he decided to end his career - there are 212 battles in his service record, 197 of which ended in victory.

Simultaneously with his sports career, Frolov graduated from the Moscow Forestry Engineering Institute and the Academy of Foreign Trade , and later, after leaving the ring, he worked in the USSR Chamber of Commerce and Industry (the management of Soviet exhibitions abroad) and the Ministry of Foreign Trade ^[1] .

• Yevgeny Frolov - Olympic statistics on the website Sports-Reference.com (English)