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Georgy Balakshin






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Georgy Balakshin
Georgy Balakshin in November 2016
Personal information
Full nameГеоргий Русланович Балакшин
Nationality Russia
Born (1980-03-06) March 6, 1980 (age 44)
Antonovka, Yakut ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height1.61 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight51 kg (112 lb)
Sport
SportBoxing
Weight classFlyweight
ClubDynamo, Yakutsk

Medal record

Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Beijing Flyweight
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2001 Belfast Flyweight
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2002 Perm Flyweight
Gold medal – first place 2004 Pula Flyweight
Gold medal – first place 2006 Plovdiv Flyweight
Silver medal – second place 2011 Ankara Flyweight
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2005 Moscow Flyweight

Georgy Ruslanovich Balakshin (Russian: Георгий Русланович Балакшин; born March 6, 1980, in Antonovka, near Nyurba, Sakha Republic) is an Olympic boxer from Russia best known for winning the European title three times.

Career[edit]

Balakshin won the gold medal in 2002 and defended the crown at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing ChampionshipsinPula. He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native Russia. There he was stopped in the quarterfinals of the Flyweight (51 kg) division by Cuba's eventual winner Yuriorkis Gamboa Toledano.

In 2005 he was part of the Russian team that won the 2005 Boxing World Cup.[1]

In 2006, he once again won the European title. At the World championships 2007 he beat Frenchman Jérôme Thomas but lost to eventual winner Rau'shee Warren of America.

At the 2011 European Amateur Boxing Championships he won silver.

Olympic results[edit]

2004 (as a flyweight)

2008 (as a flyweight)

World amateur championships results[edit]

2003 (as a flyweight)

2005 (as a flyweight)

2007 (as a flyweight)

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Россия отбила у Кубы Кубок мира Подопечные Александра Лебзяка одолели боксеров с Острова Свободы".

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