Alexander Borissowitsch Lebsjak

Alexander Lebsjak
Alexander Lebsjak 2015
Data
Birth Name	Alexander Borissowitsch Lebsjak
Weight class	Cruiser weight
nationality	Russian
birthday	April 15, 1969
place of birth	Donetsk
style	Left delivery
Combat Statistics
Struggles	1 (professionals)
Victories	1
Knockout victories	1
Defeats	0

Alexander Borissowitsch Lebsjak ( Russian Александр Борисович Лебзяк ; born April 15, 1969 in Donetsk ) is a Russian boxing trainer and former boxer.

Life

Lebsjak was the son of the miner Boris Yakovlevich (* 1939) and Larissa Vasilyevna (* 1941) in Ukrainian born Donetsk. He has an older brother named Sergei Borissowitsch (* 1962), is married to Irina Vladimirovna (* 1970) and has two daughters: Tatiana (* 1987) and Anna (* 1993).

amateur

Lebsjak's first international success as an amateur boxer was winning the 1987 Junior World Championship in Havana in the light middleweight division. He suggested including the representatives of the GDR , Andreas Liebing , which in turn before Roy Jones Jr. defeated. Between 1987 and 1989 he did his military service in the Red Army .

Olympic games

Lebsjak took part in three Olympic Games in his long amateur career. At the 1992 Games in Barcelona he failed as a representative of the CIS in the middleweight division in the round of 16 by losing points to the later American silver medalist Chris Byrd . He was also unsuccessful at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , now competing for Russia : already in the quarterfinals he lost on points against the later gold medalist Ariel Hernández from Cuba .

In the middleweight division, the class up to 75 kg, there were no victories at the major tournaments. Lebsjak recognized the loss of substance as a result of the constant boiling in order not to exceed the weight limit. He then switched to light heavyweight (81 kg) in 1997 and was confirmed by the successes that were now emerging.

In 2000 in Sydney he finally achieved the Olympic victory in this class, among other things he won early against Danny Green and in the final on points against the Czech Rudolf Kraj .

World championships

He finished second in the 1991 Amateur World Championships in Sydney . After victories against Sven Ottke and Ramón Garbey , he moved into the final, but had to admit defeat to the Italian Tommasso Russo . At the 1993 World Cup in Tampere , he lost early in the tournament against Sven Ottke. He did not take part in the 1995 tournament. In 1997 in Budapest he was able to secure the world title as a light heavyweight.

European championships

Lebsjak also boxed at five European championships in his career and always achieved podium finishes. In 1991 in Gothenburg he finished third in his first European Championship participation, he was defeated in the semifinals against Ottke. In 1993 in Bursa he made it to the final, but lost the final fight against Dirk Eigenbrodt .

At the European Championships in Vejle in 1996 , he again failed in the semi-finals against the Hungarian Zsolt Erdei and had to be satisfied with another third place. After his rise from middle to light heavyweight he then won the following two continental title fights: 1998 in Minsk , with victories over Thorsten Bengtson and Tomasz Adamek , and in 2000 in Tampere.

More Achievements

• Goodwill Games - third in 1990 (semi-final defeat against Torsten Schmitz ) and 1994 (semi-final defeat against Ariel Hernández)
• Military World Championships - Winner 1994 (final victory against Dirk Eigenbrodt), 1995 and 1999
• Soviet champion 1990, six-time Russian champion

professional

After the Olympic Games in 2000 he turned down various offers to switch to the professional camp. He had long ago decided to become a coach after his career. Nevertheless, he made an appearance as a professional boxer. On September 21, 2001, he fought in Tashkent at an event in which Ruslan Chagayev and Ross Puritty boxed, among others , in the cruiserweight division against the American Stacy Goodson and won by technical knockout in the first round.

Trainer

From 2002 to 2004 Lebsjak was employed as a trainer in the Russian armed forces, he has been the trainer of the Russian national relay since 2005 and won nine out of eleven weight classes with his boxers at the 2006 European Championship in Plovdiv .

Web links

• Alexander Lebsjak in the BoxRec database