Viktor Grigorievich Savchenko (, born 17 September 1952) is a retired Ukrainian amateur middleweight boxer. He won the European title in 1977, the world title in 1978, and two Olympic medals in 1976 and 1980. Savchenko was the Soviet middleweight champion in 1977 and 1980. He retired in 1982 with a record of 241 wins out of 271 bouts, and the same year graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk State Institute of Physical Culture. He later defended a PhD in pedagogy, and became department head and then rector at the same institute. He also served as a board member of the Ukrainian Boxing Federation and headed the Sports and Physical Culture Committee of Verkhovna Rada.

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1952 births

Living people

Light-middleweight boxers

Boxers at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Boxers at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Olympic boxers for the Soviet Union

Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union

Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union

Olympic medalists in boxing

Ukrainian male boxers

Soviet male boxers

AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists

Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR

Second convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada

Ukrainian sportsperson-politicians

Viktor Savchenko (boxer)