Vladimir Yengibaryan
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| Medal record | |||
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Competitor for the  Soviet Union |
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| Men's Boxing | |||
| Olympic Games | |||
| Gold | 1956 Melbourne | Welterweight | |
| European Amateur Championships | |||
| Gold | 1953 Warsaw | Lightweight | |
| Bronze | 1955 West Berlin | Light Welterweight | |
| Gold | 1957 Prague | Light Welterweight | |
| Gold | 1959 Luzern | Light Welterweight | |
Vladimir Nikolaevich Yengibaryan (Russian: Владимир Николаевич Енгибарян) (born April 24, 1932 in Yerevan) is a former welterweight boxer.
Yengibaryan trained at Trudovye Rezervy in Yerevan. He was an amateur boxer for the USSR, who won the Light welterweight (63.5 kg) gold medal at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic games. In 1957 he became the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour on the same year. [1] After finishing his career he founded the first in the USSR boxing Children and Youth Sport School in Yerevan. Since 1992 he lives in Los Angeles.[2]
[edit] Olympic results
- 1st round bye
- Defeated Leszek Drogosz (Poland) points
- Defeated Claude Saluden (France) points
- Defeated Henry Loubscher (South Africa) points
- Defeated Franco Nenci (Italy) points
[edit] References
- ^ Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games., 2nd ed. (in Russian), Moscow: Fizkultura i sport, p. 545.
- ^ (Russian) Profile in the Olympic Encyclopedia
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