Anatoly Lagetko

Anatoly Nikolayevich Lagetko ( born August 18, 1936 in Tokmak; † August 13, 2006 in Rostov-on- Don ) was a Soviet boxer. He won the bronze medal in the lightweight at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne.

Career

Anatoli Lagetko came from the Donezregion and began as a teenager at Spartak Rostov-on- Don in 1950 with the boxes. It took five years building time to hineinzuboxen in the Soviet top class. In 1955, he became a master of the Russian Socialist Federative Sowjetrupublik ( RSFSR ) in the lightweight (then to 60 kg body weight) and thus qualified for participation in the Soviet Championship. He fought there until the final before and was defeated in this Moscow Nikolai Smirnov on points.

Also in 1956, reached the final of the Soviet Anatoly Lagetko championship at lightweight and lost on this, in turn, Nikolai Smirnov on points. Nevertheless, he was sent by the Soviet boxing federation to the Olympic Games in Melbourne. In Melbourne he won over Francisco Nunez, Argentina, Toshihito Ishimua, Japan and Edward Beattie, Canada, and was thus in the semi-finals the Scot Richard McTaggart opposite. In an exciting fight he lost this after points, won the Olympic bronze medal. In December 1956 Anatoli Lagetko was in Moscow in the Soviet national team, who boxed against the Federal Republic of Germany. His opponent Dieter Johann Peter had been much injured in a previous battle, so Lagetko without a fight winner was.

In 1957 Anatoli Lagetko after a semi-final defeat against the Latvians Aloizs Tumiņš at the Soviet Championship on the 3rd place in the lightweight. But he was at the European Championships this year in Prague, the Soviet starter at lightweight. In Prague he met in the first round to Poland Kazimierz Paździor. The Polish boxers were incredibly strong in those years. Kazimierz Paździor but rather was a blank slate. But he won over Anatoli Lagetko on points and threw that already in the second round of the competition. Paździor eventually also became European champion.

In the following three years Anatoli Lagetko could, who ran his sports teacher training, no longer play a role in the Soviet Boxgeschehen. However, in 1961, he celebrated at the Soviet Championship a comeback and came at featherweight (then to 57 kg body weight) up to the final, where he lost to Alexander but Fedossejewitsch Sassuchin.

Anatoli Lagetko boxed after a few more years and in 1964 even once master of the RSFSR in lightweight. But for international championships he could no longer qualify. He exercised the duties of a coach and received, inter alia, the awards " Honored Master of Sports of the USSR" and " Honored trainer of the USSR".

Soviet Championships

Swell

  • Trade journal Box Sport from 1955 to 1961
  • Box Almanac 1920 - 1980, German publisher amateur boxing Association, 1980,
  • Website " www.amateur - boxing.strefa.pl "
  • Website " www.peoples.ru "
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