Anatoly Nikolayevich Lagetko

Anatoly Nikolajewitsch Lagetko (born August 18, 1936 in Tokmak , † August 13, 2006 in Rostov-on-Don ) was a Soviet boxer . He won the bronze medal in the lightweight at the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 .

Career

Anatoli Lagetko came from the Donets region and began boxing as a teenager at Spartak Rostov-on-Don in 1950. He needed five years of construction time to box himself into the Soviet top class. In 1955 he became champion of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (RSFSR) in the lightweight (then up to 60 kg body weight) and thus qualified for participation in the Soviet championship. He fought his way up to the final and was defeated by Moscow Nikolai Smirnov on points.

Also in 1956 Anatoly Lagetko reached the final of the Soviet lightweight championship and was defeated in this turn to Nikolai Smirnov on points. Nevertheless, he was sent by the Soviet Boxing Association to the Olympic Games in Melbourne . In Melbourne he triumphed over Francisco Nunez, Argentina , Toshihito Ishimua, Japan and Edward Beattie, Canada and was thus in the semifinals against Richard McTaggart from Scotland . In an exciting fight he was defeated on points and won the Olympic bronze medal . In December 1956, Anatoly Lagetko was in Moscow in the Soviet national team that boxed against the Federal Republic of Germany . His opponent Dieter Johannpeter had injured himself in a previous fight, so that Lagetko was the winner without a fight.

1957 Anatoly Lagetko came after a semi-final defeat against the Latvians Aloizs Tumiņš at the Soviet championship on the 3rd place in the lightweight. But he was the Soviet starter in the lightweight at the European Championships this year in Prague . In Prague he met Kazimierz Paździor from Poland in the first round . The Polish boxers were incredibly strong in those years. Kazimierz Paździor was a rather blank slate. But he won over Anatoli Lagetko on points and threw this out of the competition in the round of 16. Paździor finally became European champion .

In the following three years Anatoly Lagetko, who ran his sports teacher training, could no longer play a role in the Soviet boxing scene. In 1961, however, he celebrated a comeback in the Soviet championship and came in featherweight (then up to 57 kg body weight) to the finals, in which he was defeated by Alexander Fedosejewitsch Zassuchin .

Anatoli Lagetko continued to box for a few years and even became champion of the RSFSR lightweight again in 1964. But he could no longer qualify for international championships. He held the office of trainer and received u. a. honors "Honored Master of Sports of the USSR" and "Honored Trainer of the USSR".

Soviet championships

• 1955, lightweight, 1. Nikolai Smirnow , 2. Anatoli Lagetko, 3. W. Golubenko;
• 1956, lightweight, 1. Nikolai Smirnow, 2. Anatoli Lagetko, 3. W. Schiber;
• 1957, lightweight, 1. Nikolai Smirnow, 2. Aloizs Tumiņš , 3. Anatoli Lagetko;
• 1961, featherweight, 1. Alexander Fedosejewitsch Sassuchin , 2. Anatoli Lagetko, 3. M. Grigorjan u. Stanislav Stepashkin

swell

• Box Sport magazine from 1955 to 1961,
• Boxing Almanac 1920 - 1980 , published by the German Amateur Boxing Association, 1980,
• Website "www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl",
• Website "www.peoples.ru"

Web links

• Anatoli Nikolajewitsch Lagetko in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )