Aleksey Fedoseevich Zasukhin ( March 18, 1937 , Sverdlovsk - May 27, 1996 , ibid.) - Soviet boxer of the featherweight category, played for the national team in the early 1960s. Champion of the USSR, silver medalist of the European Championship. At the competition he represented the sports society Dynamo , a master of sports of international class. Also known as a boxing trainer, associate professor of NSU named after P.F. Lesgaft , candidate of pedagogical sciences.
 Alexey Zasukhin | ||||||||||||
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| Citizenship |  USSR →  Russia | |||||||||||
| Date of Birth | March 18, 1937 | |||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Yekaterinburg | |||||||||||
| Date of death | May 27, 1996 (59 years old) | |||||||||||
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| Weight category | featherweight (57 kg) | |||||||||||
| Trainer | Lev Vyazhlinsky | |||||||||||
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| Number of battles | 170 | |||||||||||
| Number of wins | 150 | |||||||||||
| Team | Dynamo | |||||||||||
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Biography
Born March 18, 1937 in Sverdlovsk . He began to actively engage in boxing, impressed by the performances of his elder brother Alexander , who achieved high results at the largest all-Union and international tournaments. In the footsteps of his brother, he joined the Dynamo voluntary sports society, where he underwent training under the guidance of the honored coach Lev Vyazhlinsky . He later lived and trained in Minsk, graduated from the Belarusian State University of Physical Culture .
He achieved his first serious success in the ring in 1960, when he won the featherweight title in the bronze medal of the USSR Championship. Nevertheless, he failed to break into the Summer Olympic Games in Rome , since by that time such boxers as Boris Nikonorov and Stanislav Stepashkin had taken the lead in the category of up to 57 kg. In 1961, Zasukhin still won the USSR championship, defeated Anatoly Lagetko in the final, and thanks to this victory he was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the European Championship in Belgrade, and subsequently received a silver medal there. After the national championship in 1962, where he lost to Vladimir Safronov in the final, the athlete decided to leave the team, spent 170 fights during his career, 150 of which he won.
He worked as a trainer in the Sverdlovsk Mining and Ural Polytechnic Institutes, taught at the boxing department of NSU named after P. F. Lesgaft , in recent years he was a children's coach in the sports club "Malachite Gong", took an active part in organizing and conducting boxing competitions at various levels, was judge of the republican category, honorary master of sports of the USSR (1964). In 1991, he was awarded the title of international master of sports of the USSR [1] .
He died on May 27, 1996. He was buried in the Forest cemetery of Yekaterinburg .
In Yekaterinburg, a memorial plaque was installed on the house where A.F. Zasukhin lived (58 Sverdlova Street).
Notes
- ↑ Zasukhin Alexey Fedoseevich . Sports in the Urals. Date of treatment May 28, 2013. Archived May 30, 2013.
Links
- Zasukhin Alexey Fedoseevich (inaccessible link) - in the hall of fame of NSU named after P.F. Lesgaft