Vadim Yemelyanov

Vadim Mikhailovich Yemelyanov (Russian Вадим Михайлович Емельянов; born April 25, 1942 † May 27, 1977 ) was a Soviet boxer. He won a bronze medal in the heavyweight division at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Career

The Leningrad Vadim Yemelyanov began as a teenager with the boxes. His coach was W. I. Kupkin. He was a member of the Red Army. In 1961 he made ​​his first appearance in when he only 19 years old, at the Soviet Championship reached the semi-finals, but lost in this Anatioli against Ivanov on points.

In 1963, he was tested by Soviet coaches in some countries fighting. Tests, all of which he passed with flying colors, because he won it by termination in the 2nd round of the Bulgarian Asen Samovolski, on points over the British Colinwood home and by knockout in the first round of the Poland Wladyslaw Jedrzjewski. He was then employed in the championship of the armies of the Warsaw Pact in Lodz. That was a championship that had a very high status in the former socialist countries. Vadim Yemelyanov won this championship by one point victory in the final over the poles Zbigniew Gugniewicz.

1964 won Vadim Yemelyanov in other countries fight over the poles Wlodzimirz Biel by KO in the 1st round. Although he was not at the start when the Soviet championships in 1963 and 1964, he was employed at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in the heavyweight division. He celebrated there two quick knockout wins over Wladyslaw Jedrzejewski in the 1st round and about the Argentinean Alberto Lovell in the 2nd round. In the semifinals he met Joe Frazier from the U.S.. Vadim Yemelyanov could make the fight in the first round open to Frazier, but was hit in the second round by Frazier several times so hard that he went KO. He won an Olympic bronze medal by reaching the semi-finals. Frazier then won by a narrow points victory over the West German Starter Hans Huber also the gold medal.

1965 reached Vadim Yemelyanov at the Soviet Championship after losing in the semi-final against Alexander Vladimirovich Isosimow the 3rd place. He first came to international operations, no further more, which is not surprising given the enormously strong competition in their own country.

1967 Vadim Yemelyanov was runner-up then at the Soviet Championship. He was defeated in the final battle again against Alexander Isossimow. He was employed at the " Dutch Tulips Tournament" in The Hague in 1968. He had in this tournament in the final battle of the Dutch Rudie Lubbers suffered a defeat. But he celebrated in the same year when Honved Cup 8 in Budapest by a knockout victory in the first round of Dieter Limant from the GDR a tournament victory.

Then Vadim Yemelyanov occurred neither in international nor at the national championships of the Soviet Union nor in appearance. He died in 1977.

USSR championships with Vadim Yemelyanov

Countries struggles of Vadim Yemelyanov

Swell

• Trade journal Box Sport from 1961 to 1968
• BOX ALMANAC 1920 - 1980 eV, German Publisher amateur boxing association, 1980,
• Website " www.sport- komplett.de "
• Website " www.amateur - boxing.strefa.pl "
• Website " boxing fbr.ru "