Viktor Savchenko

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Olympic medal record
Men’s Boxing
Bronze Montreal 1976 Light Middleweight
Silver Moscow 1980 Middleweight

Viktor Grigorievich Savchenko (Russian: Виктор Григорьевич Савченко) (born September 17, 1952) is a retired boxer, who represented the USSR twice at the Summer Olympics during his career as an amateur. He won the bronze medal in the light middleweight division (– 71 kg) at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, followed by the silver medal in the middleweight category (– 75 kg) four years later in Moscow, Soviet Union.

In 1978 he won the world title at the second World Championships in Belgrade. Savchenko trained at the Avanhard Voluntary Sports Society in Dnepropetrovsk.

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