Boris Kuznetsov (boxer)

Boris Georgievich Kuznetsov (), 23 February 1947 – 3 May 2006) was a Russian featherweight boxer. He won a gold medal at the 1972 Olympics and a silver medal at the 1974 World Championships. Domestically he won the Soviet featherweight title in 1972 and 1974 and placed second in 1970 and 1971. During his career he won 237 fights out of 249. He became the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1972 and was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor in the same year. He graduated from Astrakhan State Pedagogical Institute in 1971 and later opened a boxing school in Astrakhan.

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1947 births

2006 deaths

Soviet male boxers

Olympic boxers for the Soviet Union

Sportspeople from Astrakhan

Boxers at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union

Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR

Olympic medalists in boxing

Russian male boxers

AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists

Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Featherweight boxers