Aleksandr Koshkyn
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Medal record | |||
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Competitor for Soviet Union | |||
Men’s Boxing | |||
Olympic Games | |||
Silver | Moscow 1980 | Light Middleweight | |
World Amateur Championships | |||
Gold | Munich 1982 | Light Middleweight | |
European Amateur Championships | |||
Gold | 1981 Tampere | Light Middleweight |
Aleksandr Koshkyn (born June 13, 1959) is a retired boxer, who represented the USSR at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. There he won the silver medal in the light middleweight division (– 71 kg), after being defeated in the final by Armando Martínez of Cuba. Two years later he won the world title at the World Championships in Munich, West Germany.
[edit] Olympic results
- 1st round bye
- Defeated Salah Jassim Beden (Iraq) KO 1
- Defeated Nicky Wilshire (Great Britain) KO 2
- Defeated Detlef Kästner (East Germany) 5-0
- Lost to Armando Martínez (Cuba) 1-4