Georgy Balakshin
Russian boxer
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| Full name | Георгий Русланович Балакшин | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1980-03-06) March 6, 1980 (age 44) Antonovka, Yakut ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 51 kg (112 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | Flyweight | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Dynamo, Yakutsk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Georgy Ruslanovich Balakshin (Russian: Георгий Русланович Балакшин; born March 6, 1980, in Antonovka, near Nyurba, Sakha Republic) is an Olympic boxer from Russia best known for winning the European title three times.
Career
Balakshin won the gold medal in 2002 and defended the crown at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula. He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native Russia. There he was stopped in the quarterfinals of the Flyweight (51 kg) division by Cuba's eventual winner Yuriorkis Gamboa Toledano.
In 2005 he was part of the Russian team that won the 2005 Boxing World Cup.[1]
In 2006, he once again won the European title. At the World championships 2007 he beat Frenchman Jérôme Thomas but lost to eventual winner Rau'shee Warren of America.
At the 2011 European Amateur Boxing Championships he won silver.
Olympic results
2004 (as a flyweight)
- Defeated Bonyx Yusak Saweho (Indonesia) 26-19
- Defeated Mirzhan Rakhimzhanov (Kazakhstan) 29-20
- Lost to Yuriorkis Gamboa (Cuba) 18-26
2008 (as a flyweight)
- 1st round bye
- Defeated Mirat Sarsembayev (Kazakhstan) 12-4
- Defeated Jitender Kumar (India) 15-11
- Lost to Andry Laffita (Cuba) 8-9
World amateur championships results
2003 (as a flyweight)
- Defeated Akhil Kumar (India) 26-16
- Defeated Hermensen Ballo (Indonesia) 22-8
- Lost to Alexander Vladimirov (Bulgaria) 24-33
2005 (as a flyweight)
- Defeated Bradley Hore (Australia) 25-11
- Defeated Atagun Yalcinkaya (Turkey) 36-15
- Lost to Rau'shee Warren (United States) 21-31
2007 (as a flyweight)
- Defeated Jérôme Thomas (France) 25-11
- Defeated Nurlan Aydarbek Ulu (Kyrgyzstan) RSCI 3
- Defeated Jitender Kumar (India) 14-9
- Lost to Rau'shee Warren (United States) 13-23
References
- ^ "Россия отбила у Кубы Кубок мира Подопечные Александра Лебзяка одолели боксеров с Острова Свободы".
External links
- Yahoo! Sports
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Georgiy Balakshin". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
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1924 – 2010: up to 51 kg
- 1924: James McKenzie (ENG)
- 1925: Émile Pladner (FRA)
- 1927: Lennart Bohman (FRA)
- 1928: Antal Kocsis (HUN)
- 1930: István Énekes (HUN)
- 1932: István Énekes (HUN)
- 1934: Patrick Palmer (ENG)
- 1937: Vilmos Énekes (HUN)
- 1939: James Ingle (IRL)
- 1942: Carlo Paesani (ITA)
- 1947: Luis Martínez (ESP)
- 1949: Janusz Kasperczak (POL)
- 1951: Aristide Pozzali (ITA)
- 1953: Henryk Kukier (POL)
- 1955: Edgar Basel (FRG)
- 1957: Manfred Homberg (FRG)
- 1959: Manfred Homberg (FRG)
- 1961: Paolo Vacca (ITA)
- 1963: Viktor Bystrov (URS)
- 1965: Hans Freistadt (FRG)
- 1967: Hubert Skrzypczak (POL)
- 1969: Constantin Ciucă (ROM)
- 1971: Juan Francisco Rodríguez (ESP)
- 1973: Constantin Gruiescu (ROM)
- 1975: Vladislav Sasypko (URS)
- 1977: Leszek Błażyński (POL)
- 1979: Henryk Średnicki (POL)
- 1981: Petar Lesov (BUL)
- 1983: Petar Lesov (BUL)
- 1985: Dieter Berg (GDR)
- 1987: Andreas Tews (GDR)
- 1989: Yuri Arbachakov (URS)
- 1991: István Kovács (HUN)
- 1993: Rovshan Huseynov (AZE)
- 1996: Albert Pakeyev (RUS)
- 1998: Volodymyr Sydorenko (UKR)
- 2000: Volodymyr Sydorenko (UKR)
- 2002: Georgy Balakshin (RUS)
- 2004: Georgy Balakshin (RUS)
- 2006: Georgy Balakshin (RUS)
- 2008: Georgiy Chygayev (UKR)
- 2010: Misha Aloyan (RUS)
- 2011: Andrew Selby (WAL)
- 2013: Andrew Selby (WAL)
- 2015: Daniel Asenov (BUL)
- 2017: Daniel Asenov (BUL)
- 2019: Gabriel Escobar (ESP)
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