Soviet Union at The 1980 Summer Olympics - Boxing

Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (48 kg)

  • Shamil Sabirov → Gold Medal
    1. First Round — Bye
    2. Second Round — Defeated João Manuel Miguel (Portugal) on points (5-0)
    3. Quarter Finals — Defeated Dietmar Geilich (East Germany) on points (4-1)
    4. Semi Finals — Defeated Li Byong-Uk (North Korea) on points (5-0)
    5. Final — Defeated Hipolito Ramos (Cuba) on points (3-2)


Men's Flyweight (51 kg)

  • Viktor Miroshnichenko → Silver Medal
    1. First Round — Bye
    2. Second Round — Defeated Jorge Hernández (Cuba) on points (4-1)
    3. Quarter Finals — Defeated Henryk Średnicki (Poland) on points (5-0)
    4. Semi Finals — Defeated János Váradi (Hungary) on points (4-1)
    5. Final — Lost to Petar Lesov (Bulgaria) after referee stopped contest in second round


Men's Bantamweight (54 kg)

  • Samson Khachatrian
    1. First Round — Bye
    2. Second Round — Defeated Andres Tena (Dominican Republic) on points (5-0)
    3. Third Round — Defeated Joseph Ahanda (Cameroon) on points (5-0)
    4. Quarter Finals — Lost to Dumitru Cipere (Romania) on points (1-4)


Men's Featherweight (57 kg)

  • Viktor Rybakov → Bronze Medal
    1. First Round — Bye
    2. Second Round — Defeated Daniel Londas (France) on points (5-0)
    3. Third Round — Defeated Peter Joseph Hanlon (Great Britain) on points (5-0)
    4. Quarter Finals — Defeated Tsacho Andreikovski (Bulgaria) on points (4-1)
    5. Semi Finals — Lost to Rudi Fink (East Germany) on points (1-4)


Men's Lightweight (60 kg)

  • Viktor Demyanenko → Silver Medal
    1. First Round — Defeated Mohamed Bangura (Sierra Leone) after diskwalification in second round
    2. Second Round — Defeated Jong Jo-Ung (North Korea) on points (5-0)
    3. Quarter Finals — Defeated Yordan Lesov (Bulgaria) on points (5-0)
    4. Semi Finals — Defeated Richard Nowakowski (East Germany) after referee stopped contest in first round
    5. Final — Lost to Angel Herrera (Cuba) after referee stopped contest in third round


Men's Light-Welterweight (63.5 kg)

  • Serik Konakbaev → Silver Medal
    1. First Round — Defeated Simion Cuçov (Romania) on points (5-0)
    2. Second Round — Defeated Imre Bacskai (Hungary) after retiring in second round
    3. Quarter Finals — Defeated José Angel Molina (Puerto Rico) retired
    4. Semi Finals — Defeated José Aguilar (Cuba) on points (4-1)
    5. Final — Lost to Patrizio Oliva (Italy) on points (1-4)


Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)

  • Aleksandr Koshkyn → Silver Medal
    1. First Round — Bye
    2. Second Round — Defeated Salah Jassim Beden (Iraq) after knock-out in first round
    3. Quarter Finals — Defeated Nick Wilshire (Great Britain) after knock-out in second round
    4. Semi Finals — Defeated Detlef Kästner (East Germany) on points (5-0)
    5. Final — Lost to Armando Martínez (Cuba) on points (1-4)


Men's Heavyweight (+ 81 kg)

  • Piotr Zaev → Silver Medal
    1. First Round — Defeated Azis Salihu (Yugoslavia) on points (5-0)
    2. Quarter Finals — Defeated Francesco Damiani (Italy) on points (5-0)
    3. Semi Finals — Defeated Jürgen Fanghänel (East Germany) on points (5-0)
    4. Final — Lost to Teófilo Stevenson (Cuba) on points (1-4)

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