Viktor Demyanenko
Appearance
Medal record | ||
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Men’s Boxing | ||
Representing the Soviet Union | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1980 Moscow | Lightweight | |
European Amateur Championships | ||
1979 Cologne | Lightweight |
Viktor Leonidovich Demyanenko (Template:Lang-ru) (born August 26, 1958 in Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR) 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 lightweight division (– 60 kg), after being defeated in the final by Cuba's Ángel Herrera. Demyanenko trained at Dynamo in Alma-Ata. He won gold at the 1979 European Championship. During his career Demyanenko won 267 fights out of 290.[1]
Olympic results
- Defeated Mohamed Bangura (Sierra Leone) DQ 2
- Defeated Jong Jo-Ung (North Korea) 5-0
- Defeated Yordan Lessov (Bulgaria) 5-0
- Defeated Richard Nowakowski (East Germany) RSC 1
- Lost to Ángel Herrera (Cuba) RSC 3 (due to injury)
References
- Viktor Demyanenko at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
Categories:
- 1958 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Almaty
- Soviet boxers
- Lightweight boxers
- Boxers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers of the Soviet Union
- Dynamo sports society athletes
- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Kazakhstani male boxers
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Asian boxing biography stubs
- Kazakhstani martial arts biography stubs
- Soviet Olympic medalist stubs