Alexander Fedoseyevich Zassuchin

Sassuchin (center) defeated the Bulgarian Gyuryev in March 1952

Alexander Fedosejewitsch Sassuchin ( Russian Александр Федосеевич Засухин ; born July 25, 1928 in Sverdlovsk ) is a former Soviet boxer . He was vice European champion in 1955 and 1961 in featherweight.

Career

Alexander Sassuchin started boxing as a teenager in Sverdlovsk . He was a member of "Dynamo" Sverdlovsk and later of "Dynamo" Minsk . He celebrated his first big success in 1950. In that year he was Soviet bantamweight champion before Gabriel Khanukashvili and Gennady Garbushev. The next good placement at a Soviet championship he succeeded in 1952 when he finished 2nd in featherweight behind Yuri Sokolow and ahead of M. Jakowljew. He didn't make the jump to the Olympic Games that year.

In 1953 he came in the Soviet featherweight championship behind Yuri Sokolow and W. Smirnow on the 3rd place. In 1954 he won his second Soviet championship before L. Anguladze and Yuri Sokolow. It was the first in featherweight. 1955 Alexander Sassuchin was used at the European championship in Berlin in the featherweight division. He won there over Massard from Luxembourg , Istvan Horvath from Hungary and Hans-Peter Mehling from the Federal Republic of Germany, each on points and had thus reached the final. In this he was surprisingly defeated by the English outsider Thomas Nicholls with 3: 2 judges votes and had to be content with the vice-European title.

Alexander Sassuchin was absent from the Soviet championship taking place after this European championship. In 1956 he was again Soviet featherweight champion and had thus qualified for participation in the Olympic Games in Melbourne . He injured himself in the final training and had to be replaced at short notice by Vladimir Safronov , who promptly became Olympic champion in Melbourne .

1957 Alexander Sassuchin became the fourth Soviet featherweight champion. At the European Championships this year, however, Vladimir Safronov was used. In 1958 and 1959 he was unable to place in the front field at the Soviet championships. In 1960 he again took third place behind Boris Nikanorow and Stanislaw Stepaschkin . However, it was not used at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.

Alexander Sassuchin still did not give up and became Soviet champion for the fifth time in 1961, now 33 years old. In the course of this championship he defeated the 1956 Olympic champion Vladimir Safronov and Stanislaw Stepashkin, who was to become Olympic champion in 1964. He was then used at the European Championships in Belgrade and reached the final after victories over Jaroslaw Kulesza from Poland and Heinz Schulz from the GDR . In this he lost, like six years ago, against the Englishman Francis Taylor on points and was again only runner-up European champion.

In 1962 Alexander Sassuchin was once again the Soviet runner-up behind Vladimir Safronov and then ended his boxer career.

Country battles with Alexander Sassuchin

• 1952 in Moscow , USSR against Poland , points winner over Leszek Drogosz ,
• 1955 in Moscow, USSR against Finland , point defeat against Pentti Hämäläinen ,
• 1956 in Paris , France against the USSR, techn. KO winner 2nd round over Georges Henry

USSR championships with Alexander Sassuchin

(1950 in bantamweight, from 1952 in featherweight, at that time up to 54 kg or 57 kg body weight)

• 1950: 1st Alexander Sassuchin, 2nd Gabriel Khanukashvili, 3rd Gennady Garbushev,
• 1952: 1st Yuri Sokolow , 2nd Alexander Sassuchin, 3rd M. Jakowljew,
• 1953: 1. Yuri Sokolow, 2. W. Smirnow, 3. Alexander Sassuchin,
• 1954: 1. Alexander Sassuchin, 2. L. Anguladze, 3. Juri Sokolow,
• 1956: 1. Alexander Sassuchin, 2. M. Papatsjan, 3. Vladimir Karimov,
• 1957: 1. Alexander Sassuchin, 2. M. Papazjan, 3. Aloizs Tumiņš ,
• 1960: 1. Boris Nikanorow , 2. Stanislaw Stepanowitsch Stepaschkin , 3. Alexander Sassuchin a. G. Vasiliev,
• 1961: 1. Alexander Sassuchin, 2. Anatoli Lagetko, 3. Stanislaw Stepaschkin a. M. Grigorjan,
• 1962: 1. Vladimir Safronow , 2. Alexander Sassuchin, 3. G. Sidun a. L. Goncharov

swell

• Boxing sport magazine from 1950 to 1962,
• BOX-ALMANACH 1920 - 1980 , publisher of the German Amateur Boxing Association, 1980,
• Website "www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl",
• Website "www.peoples.ru"

Web link

• Alexander Sassuchin in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )