Stanislaw Ivanovich Stepashkin

Stanislaw Ivanovich Stepaschkin ( Russian Станислав Иванович Степашкин ; September 1, 1940 , † September 4, 2013 ) was a Soviet boxer . He was Olympic champion in 1964 and European amateurs champion in 1963 and 1965 in featherweight.

Career

Stanislaw Stepaschkin started boxing in Moscow when he was 15 years old . He was initially a member of "Trudovye Rezervy" (Workers' Reserves) Moscow. His trainer was A. Chebotarev. In 1960 he started at the Soviet Junior Championship (U 20) in the featherweight division and was the title holder of this championship with a victory over L. Pisarenko. In the same year he also started at the Soviet senior championship and was there in the featherweight fight against Boris Nikanorow , whom he lost just on points.

In 1961, Stanislaw Stepashkin was not quite as successful at the Soviet championship as it was in 1960. In the semifinals, he met the old master Alexei Sassuchin , to whom he was defeated on points. He took 3rd place. At the Soviet championship in 1962, Stanislaw Stepashkin met the 1956 Olympic champion Vladimir Safronov in the quarter-finals , to whom he lost and therefore ended up in 5th place with three other boxers.

In 1962, Stanislav Stepashkin joined the Soviet Army and started working for the Central Sports Club of the Army (CSKA) Moscow. He also started at the 3rd featherweight championship of the armies of the Warsaw Pact countries in Kromirz / CSSR, but suffered a surprising point defeat in the final against Heinz Schulz from the GDR .

Somewhat surprisingly, Stanislaw Stepashkin was nominated in 1963 for the European Championship to be held in Moscow in May. He was there but in excellent form and defeated the featherweight Ivan Traikow from Bulgaria by techn. KO in the 2nd round, Lajos Baranyi from Hungary by techn. KO in the 2nd round and Jerzy Adamski from Poland by techn. KO in the 3rd round. Only the Italian Giovanni Girgenti managed to go over time with Stepashkin in the final. A clear point win for Stanislaw Stepaschkin, who thus became the new European champion , could not prevent him either. Stepashkin also proved to be the best featherweight at the Soviet championship, which took place after the European Championship. He won the final battle against Vladimir Safronov clearly on points.

In the Olympic year of 1964 it was important for Stanislaw Stepashkin to become Soviet champion again in view of the nomination for the Olympic Games in Tokyo . He managed this goal confidently and was therefore able to start in Tokyo at featherweight. There he was very superior again in the first four fights. He knocked out Jose Nieves from Puerto Rico in the 3rd round, won in the round of 16 over Hung Cheng Hsu from Korea by knocking out in the 2nd round, won the quarterfinals over Constantin Crudu from Romania by knocking out in the 3rd round and also defeated Heinz Schulz by knockout in the 2nd round. In the final battle against Anthony Villanueva from the Philippines , however, this series of knockout victories tore. Villanueva, a stocky and robust fighter, gave Stepashkin a hard time. At the end of the fight three of the five judges decided for Stepashkin and two for Villanueva. Stepashkin was thus Olympic champion , but not a few experts spoke of a blatant misjudgment.

In 1965 Stanislaw Stepashkin succeeded in winning the title again at the Soviet championship. He then started at the European Featherweight Championships in East Berlin . Here he defeated Jakov Bencun from Yugoslavia on points, Vaclav Vojik from Czechoslovakia by breaking off in the 1st round, Ken Buchanan from Scotland and Bruno Bendig from Poland on points. The title win was the reward for these victories. At the end of 1965 Stanislaw Stepaschkin also started at the pre-Olympic Games in Mexico City and won the featherweight boxing tournament there by knocking out Davila from Mexico in the second round.

In 1966 Stanislaw Stepashkin was absent from the Soviet championship due to injury. He started again at the 5th Championship of the Armies of the Warsaw Pact States in Budapest and won the featherweight final there by knocking out Piotr Gutman from Poland in the 1st round.

Stanislaw wanted to become European featherweight champion for the third time in Rome in 1967, and also won his first fight over the Italian Firmo Pasetti on points. However, he sustained such a serious injury that he could no longer box. Stepashkin could not start in the Soviet championship this year either.

Just restored, it then competed in the 1968 Soviet championship, which was again about the starting place for the Olympic Games. Stanislav Stepashkin's form was not enough to defeat Valery Plotnikov in the final of this championship. He lost this fight on points and thus also lost the ticket to the Olympic Games in Mexico to Plotnikov.

Then Stanislaw Stepashkin ended his boxer career. As his large number of knockout victories shows, the southpaw was an outspoken puncher who spared neither himself nor his opponents. He played a total of 204 fights, of which he won 193.

Country battles by Stanislaw Stepashkin

• 1960: in Moscow , Moscow against London , point defeat against Phil Lundgren
• 1960: in Moscow, USSR against FRG , winner of the 2nd round via Radke, Mannheim
• 1963: in Moscow, USSR against England , points winner over Winston Lund
• 1963: in Łódź , Poland against USSR, techn. KO winner 2nd round over Jan Szczepański
• 1964: in Moscow, USSR against Poland, point defeat against Piotr Gutman
• 1967: in Berlin , Berlin against Moscow, points winner over Peter Henatsch
• 1968: in Glasgow , Scotland against the USSR, points winner over Robert Mallon
• 1968: in Dublin , Ireland against the USSR, knockout winner 1st round over Vebaney

USSR championships with Stanislaw Stepashkin

(all featherweight, back then up to 57 kg body weight)

• 1960: (Juniors U 20) 1. Stanislaw Stepaschkin, 2. L. Pisarenko, 3. V. Plotnika u. N. Minobayev
• 1960: 1. Boris Nikanorow , 2. Stanislaw Stepaschkin, 3. G. Wasiliew a. Alexei Sassuchin
• 1961: 1. Alexei Sassuchin, 2. Anatoli Lagetko, 3. Stanislaw Stepaschkin a. M. Grigorjan
• 1962: 1. Vladimir Safronow , 2. Alexei Sassuschin, 3. I. Goncharow a. G. Sidun, 5. Stanislaw Stepashkin
• 1963: 1. Stanislaw Stepaschkin, 2. Vladimir Safronow, 3. W. Krivoluk a. T. Gulanov
• 1964: 1. Stanislaw Stepaschkin, 2. P. Grivinsky, 3. W. Belousov a. Piotr Chedinovkitsch
• 1965: 1. Stanislaw Stepaschiin, 2. Algis Zurza, 3. W. Beloussow a. Piotr Chedinovkitsch
• 1968: 1. Valeri Plotnikow, 2. Stanislaw Stepaschkin, 3. B. Koschewin a. Semen Trestin

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• Box Sport trade journal from 1960 to 1968
• BOX ALMANACH 1920 - 1989 , publisher of the German Amateur Boxing Association, 1980
• Website "www.sport-komplett.de"
• Website "www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl"
• Website "www.peoples.ru/sport/boxer"

Web links

• Stanislaw Stepaschkin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait of Stanislav Stepashkin in Russian