Aleksandr Zasukhin

Aleksandr Zasukhin

Personal information
Born	15 July 1928 (1928-07-15) (age 88) Yekaterinburg, Russia
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Club	Dynamo Yekaterinburg
Medal record Representing the  Soviet Union European Championships 1953 Warsaw -57 kg 1955 West Berlin -57 kg

Aleksandr Fedoseyevich Zasukhin (Russian: Александр Федосеевич Засухин, born 15 July 1928) is a retired Soviet boxer who won two siliver medals at the European championships of 1953 and 1955. He competed at the 1952 Olympics, but was eliminated in the second bout.^[1] During his career Zasukhin won four national titles (1950, 1954, 1956, 1957) and 165 bouts out of 185.^[2]

Zasukhin graduated from the Krasnodar Institute of Physical Education, where he defended a PhD in pedagogy and became professor. In the 1960s he moved to Perm, and later worked as a boxing coach in Bulgaria.^[2] His younger brother Aleksei also won a European silver medal in boxing.

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