Rufat Riskiyev
Appearance
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Men's Boxing | ||
Olympic Games | ||
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1976 Montreal | Middleweight |
World Amateur Championships | ||
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1974 Havana | Middleweight |
Rufat Asadovich Riskiyev (Russian: Руфат Асадович Рискиев) (born October 2, 1949 in Akkurgan, Uzbek SSR) is a retired boxer, who represented the USSR at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. There he won the silver medal in the middleweight division (– 75 kg). In the final he was defeated by United States youngster Michael Spinks, after the referee had to stop the contest in the third round.
Two years earlier, at the inaugural 1974 World Championships in Havana, Cuba, Riskiyev won the world title. He trained at the Dynamo sports society.
1976 Olympic results
[edit]Below is the record of Rufat Riskiyev, a middleweight boxer from the Soviet Union who competed at the 1976 Montreal Olympics:
- Round of 32: Defeated Jorma Taipale (Finland) KO 3
- Round of 16: Defeated Ilya Dimitrov (Bulgaria) by decision, 5-0
- Quarterfinal: Defeated Siraj-ud-Din (Pakistan) RSC 3
- Semifinal: Defeated Luis Martínez (Cuba) by decision, 3-2
- Final: Lost to Michael Spinks (United States) RSC 3 (was awarded silver medal)
References
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Categories:
- 1949 births
- Living people
- Uzbeks
- Soviet male boxers
- Middleweight boxers
- Boxers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers for the Soviet Union
- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- People from Tashkent Region
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Uzbekistani male boxers
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
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- Uzbekistani martial arts biography stubs