Sergei Alexandrovich Sivko
Sergei Alexandrowitsch Siwko ( Russian Сергей Александрович Сивко ; born June 7, 1940 in Tula , † November 10, 1966 in Moscow ) was a Soviet boxer .
Life
Siwko won a silver flyweight medal (-51 kg) at the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 . After victories over Chung Shin-cho, South Korea (KO 1st), Antoine Porcel, France (DQ 3rd), Manfred Homberg , Germany (5: 0), and Kiyoshi Tanabe , Japan (4: 1), he scored in the final on Gyula Török , Hungary , to whom he lost 3-2 referee votes.
In 1961 Siwko won the European Championships in Belgrade . In the final of the bantamweight (-54 kg) he beat the Pole Piotr Gutman .
After Siwko's early death in 1966 (he was run over by a car), a memorial tournament in his honor was held in Moscow from 1975 to 1980.
Awards
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Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1960) -
Medal for heroic work
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source
- amateur-boxing.strefa.pl
Web link
- Sergei Siwko in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Short biography of Siwko on infosport.ru (Russian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sivko, Sergei Alexandrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Сивко, Сергей Александрович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet boxer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tula |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1966 |
| Place of death | Moscow |