Valeri Popenchenko

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Medal record
Competitor for the Flag of the Soviet Union Soviet Union
Men's Boxing
Olympic Games
Gold 1964 Tokyo Middleweight
European Amateur Championships
Gold 1963 Moscow Middleweight
Gold 1965 Berlin Middleweight

Valeri Vladimirovich Popenchenko (Russian: Валерий Владимирович Попенченко) (August 26, 1937,Kuntsevo — February 15, 1975, Moscow) was an amateur boxer from the Soviet Union, who competed in the Middleweight division (– 75 kg) during his career.

Popenchenko trained at Dynamo in Leningrad. He was the USSR Champion in 1959 and from 1961 to 1965. He became the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1964 and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour in the following year. [1]

Popenchenko represented the Soviet Union at the Summer Olympics of 1964. He was also named the Outstanding Boxer of the 1964 Olympics and given the Val Barker Trophy.

[edit] Olympic results

[edit] References

  1. ^ Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games., 2nd ed. (in Russian), Moscow: Fizkultura i sport, p. 572. 

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