Aleksei Zasukhin

Aleksei Zasukhin
Personal information
Born 18 March 1937
Yekaterinburg, Russia
Died 27 May 1996(1996-05-27) (aged 59)[1]
Sport
Sport Boxing
Club Dynamo Yekaterinburg

Aleksei Fedoseyevich Zasukhin (Russian: Александр Федосеевич Засухин, 18 March 1937 27 May 1996) was a Soviet boxer who won a national title and a European silver medal in 1961. He retired in 1962 after finishing second in the Soviet championships. During his career Zasukhin won 150 bouts our of 170. He graduated from the Belarusian State University of Physical Training, and later worked as a boxing coach in Yekaterinburg and in Saint Petersburg. His elder brother Aleksandr was an Olympic boxer and an inspiration for Aleksei.[2][3]

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