Gennady Ivanovich Shatkov

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Schatkow (left) in battle with the Pole Piorkowski, 1954 in Sofia
Gennady Shatkov medal table

boxer

Soviet Union
Olympic games
gold 1956 Melbourne medium
European Championship
gold 1955 Berlin medium
gold 1959 Prague medium

Gennadi Ivanovich Schatkow ( Russian Геннадий Иванович Шатков ; born May 27, 1932 in Leningrad ; † January 14, 2009 ibid) was a Soviet boxer .

Shatkow was among other things Olympic champion in 1956 and European champion of amateurs in 1955 and 1959 in the middleweight division.

Career

Gennady Shatkov started boxing at the age of twelve in a pioneering Leningrad club. His first trainers there were A. Zhdanov and Ivan Osipov. In 1949 he first drew attention to himself when he finished third in his weight class at the Soviet youth championship in Rostov-on-Don .

In 1951 he graduated from high school in Leningrad and began studying law at the University of Leningrad. As a student he started for "Burewestnik" Leningrad. In the same year he also celebrated his first big success with the seniors. He became the light middleweight champion of Leningrad. In 1953 he finished third in the Soviet Union's light middleweight championship, and in 1954 he was second in the middleweight division at the same event. In 1955 he succeeded in winning the first title at the Soviet championship. He beat Boris Nasarenko on points in the middleweight finals.

Gennady Schatkow was then used at the European Championships in May 1955 in Berlin (West). The Soviet association trainer Sergei Tscherbakow had prepared his boxers excellently so that they all started in Berlin in top form. Gennady Shatkov was an excellent counter-boxer and had a very good physique. In Berlin he defeated Hope from England in the second round and Zbigniew Piorkowski from Poland in the quarter-finals on points. In the semi-finals, he met defending champion Dieter Wemhöner , who naturally wanted to defend his 1953 title in his hometown. In a balanced fight, Gennady Shatkov was awarded a narrow point victory and was thus in the final battle. In this he met the European champion from 1951 Stig Sjölin from Sweden . Although Sjölin embarrassed Shatkow a few times towards the end of the fight, his point advantage from the first two rounds was enough to get the victory awarded. Gennady Shatkov was European middleweight champion in 1955.

In 1956, Gennady Shatkov qualified for the Olympic Games in Melbourne by winning the 1st Spartakiad of the Soviet Union . He was in good shape again in Melbourne and defeated Ralph Hosack from Canada on points in the round of 16 , won over Giulio Rinaldi from Italy in the quarter-finals and defeated Víctor Zalazar from Argentina in the semi-finals by knocking out in the second round. In the final he met the Chilean Ramón Tapia , who surprisingly made it into this final , whom he was vastly superior and whom he knocked out in the first round. He was thus Olympic champion . In this Olympic tournament, Shatkov showed perhaps the best fights of his international career.

In 1957, Gennady Shatkov experienced a surprise at the Soviet championship. He wasn't in good shape and lost to Askold Lasota from Moscow in the middleweight final on points. He was nevertheless used at the European Championships in Prague , but was in hardly better shape there. Although he managed to win a point over the Bulgarian Topusow in the second round, he was defeated in the quarter-finals against the Yugoslav Dragoslav Jakovljević , against whom he was even twice on the ground and was eliminated without a medal.

In 1958 Gennady Shatkov was again Soviet middleweight champion before Yevgeny Feofanov . International championships did not take place in that year. In 1959 he was not at the start in the Soviet championship. The middleweight title won there Valery Popentschenko , who should soon be his successor as the best Soviet middleweight. At the European Championships in Lucerne in 1959 , however, Gennadi Shatkow was used again. He justified this trust in Cherbakov and won his second European title with a points win in the final over the Pole Tadeusz Walasek .

In the Soviet championship in 1960 Gennady Shatkov was eliminated in the quarterfinals when he lost to Valeri Popentschenko. Soviet middleweight champion was not Popentschenko, but Yevgeny Feofanow, who won against Popentschenko in the semi-finals and against Danas Pozniakas in the final. In the light heavyweight division, Askold Lasota was the Soviet champion. Since the Soviet head coach Cherbakov did not expect much from Lasota at the Olympic Games in Rome, he persuaded Gennady Shatkov to compete in the light heavyweight division in Rome. Schatkow therefore started in Rome in the light heavyweight division and defeated the Luxemburgish Raymond Cillien safely on points in the first round of the tournament. In the quarter-finals he met a young, only 18-year-old colored US boxer named Cassius Clay , about whom little was known in the Soviet team. Cassius Clay was superior to Gennadi Schatkow because of his speed and surprisingly also because of his self-confidence and scored Schatkow with 5: 0 judges' votes. The ratings of the individual judges were 60:57, 60:57, 60:57, 60:59 and 59:56 in favor of Clay. Gennady Shatkov won no medal as a result.

After these Olympic Games, Gennady Shatkov ended his boxer career. He completed his law degree in 1962 and became Pro-Rector of the University of Leningrad in 1964. He also received the Order of Lenin , the highest civilian honor awarded by the Soviet Union. He remained connected to boxing and published a total of seven books, mainly on sports topics. The most popular in the Soviet Union were “The Big Ring” (1963), “Hard Rounds” (1979) and “The Young Boxer” (1982). Shatkow died on January 14, 2009 in Saint Petersburg after a long illness.

Gennady Shatkov's international battles (as far as known)

Results of the USSR championships from 1953 to 1960 (1953 light middleweight, 1954 to 1960 middleweight)

  • 1953: 1. Boris Tischin , 2. V. Muraschow, 3. Gennadi Schatkow,
  • 1954: 1. G. Tolstikow, 2. Gennadi Schatkow, 3. M. Tschernuka,
  • 1955: 1. Gennadi Schatkow, 2. Boris Nazarenko, 3. V. Lukjanow,
  • 1956: 1st Gennady Shatkov, 2nd Askold Lasota, 3rd Yevgeny Feofanow ,
  • 1957: 1. Askold Lasota, 2. Gennadi Schatkow, 3. Evgeni Feofanow,
  • 1958: 1st Gennady Shatkow, 2nd Yevgeny Feofanow, 3rd R. Sarkisow,
  • 1959: 1. Valeri Popentschenko , 2. Evgeni Feofanow, 3. R. Akopow,
  • 1960: 1. Evgeni Feofanow, 2. Danas Pozniakas , 3. Valeri Popentschenko a. Anatoly Koromyslov

swell

  • Box Sport trade journal from 1953 to 1960,
  • BOX ALMANACH 1920–1980 , publisher of the German Amateur Boxing Association, 1980,
  • Website "www.sport-komplett.de",
  • Website "www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl",
  • Website "www.databasolympics.com",
  • Website "www.peoples.ru"

Web links
personal data
SURNAME Shatkow, Gennady Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Шатков, Геннадий Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet boxer
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 2009
Place of death Leningrad