Alexey Vladimirovich Lezin (born February 27, 1973 , settlement Energetik , Orenburg Region ) - Russian amateur boxer, 1995 world champion , three-time European champion (1996, 1998, 2000), bronze medalist of the 1996 Olympic Games , winner of the Goodwill Games 1994, four-time champion of Russia (1994, 1995, 1998, 2003), two-time world champion among military personnel (1994, 1999). Honored Master of Sports of Russia (1994).
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| Full name | Alexey Vladimirovich Lezin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship |  Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of Birth | February 27, 1973 (aged 46) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | pos. Power Engineer , Orenburg Region , USSR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight category | Heavyweight (+ 91 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Trainer | A.V. Grishin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medals
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Despite the outstanding successes in his amateur career, he never started a professional. He spent his last fight in 2004 and in 2005 announced his retirement from the sport, by then working as the chief engineer of one of the enterprises in his native Ulyanovsk . [one]
Aleksey Lezin was awarded the medal of the Order for Merit to the Fatherland, First Class, by presidential decree No. 650 of May 21, 2007 . [2]
Famous Opponents
Among the defeated opponents of Lezin in the ring were future professional champions
- Wladimir Klitschko - defeat Wladimir in the 1996 European Championship finals, and defeat him in the semi-finals of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta
- Vitali Klitschko - victory over Vitali in the final of the 1995 World Cup, and defeat from him in the final of the World Boxing Championship among military personnel in the same year
- Nikolay Valuev - victory over Valuev in the semifinals of the Goodwill Games in St. Petersburg (1994) [3]
- Rubacalba Alexis - defeated by Rubakalba A. by knockout in the quarterfinals of the 1997 World Championships in Budapest.
- Audley Harrison - defeated by Harrison at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
(Lezin: - “I fought three times with the Klitschko brothers. The score of personal meetings with each - 2: 1 in my favor”
Victories over Vitali Klitschko:
- in the finals of the world championship among military personnel in Tunisia
- in the finals of the 1995 World Cup.
Defeat: at the World Championship among the military in Italy, the victory in the final was given to the elder Klitschko. About seven months after the fight, a letter from the IOC came to the Boxing Federation of Russia confirming that doping was detected in a urine sample of Klitschko Sr. And the victory in Italy seemed to be awarded to me.
- “Kolya (Valuev) went to the pros in 1994 after losing a couple of times in the amateur ring”)