Igor Ruzhnikov

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Igor Ruzhnikov medal table

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Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union
World championships
gold 1989 Light welterweight
European championships
gold 1989 Light welterweight
Goodwill Games
gold 1986 Light welterweight

Igor Ivanovich Ruschnikow (born January 19, 1965 in Verkhnyaya Pescha ) is a former Soviet - Kazakh light welterweight boxer . In 1989 he became Soviet champion, European champion and world champion. He is also the winner of the 1986 Goodwill Games.

Career

He started boxing at the age of 12 and also became the captain of the Kazakh team in the Soviet Union during his career. One of his training partners was Serik Konakbajew .

In 1984 he won the Soviet Junior Championships in Chișinău and in 1985 the USSR Cup in Ivanovo . At the Soviet championships in 1985 and 1986 he won bronze after he was eliminated in the semifinals against the world champion and multiple European champion Vasily Schischow .

At the 1986 Goodwill Games in Moscow , he finally won the gold medal. He defeated Wilko Säger from the GDR in the quarter-finals (5: 0), in the semifinals the later record world champion Roy Jones junior (4: 1) from the USA and in the final the runner-up world champion Engels Pedroza from Venezuela (5: 0). In 1987 he won silver at the Soviet Championships in Kaunas , after he was only eliminated in the final with 2: 3 against the eventual Olympic champion Vyacheslav Janowski . In 1988 he won bronze again at the Soviet Championships in Tashkent , while he was able to win the USSR Cup again in the same year.

In 1989 he finally became Soviet champion, European champion and world champion. At the European Championships in Athens he beat Giani Gogol from Romania (4: 1), Ioannis Ioannidis from Greece (5: 0), Andreas Otto from the GDR (4: 1) and Dariusz Czernij from Poland (3: 2). At the World Championships in Moscow he prevailed against the Australian Grahame Cheney (19: 7), the Cuban Candelario Duvergel (22:14), the Yugoslav Vukašin Dobrašinović (16: 3) and again Andreas Otto (19:14).

With an amateur record of 163 wins out of 185 fights, he switched to the pros in 1990 and played five fights in the USA, Latvia and Kazakhstan, of which he won three and lost one. A fight ended valueless.

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