Vasily Anatolyevich Solomin

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Wassili Anatoljewitsch Solomin ( Russian Василий Анатольевич Соломин ; born January 5, 1953 in Molotow ; † December 28, 1997 ) was a Russian amateur boxer.

Career

Solomin began boxing in 1969 and has contested 194 fights in his sporting career, of which he won 186. He celebrated his first international success in 1972 when he won the European Junior Bantamweight Championship in Bucharest .

At the amateur world championships held for the first time in Havana in 1974 , he won the lightweight class. In doing so, he beat the two German representatives, Jochen Bachfeld from the GDR and Peter Hess from the Federal Republic of Germany .

In 1976 he took part in the Olympic Games in Montreal and won a bronze medal there, he failed in the semifinals against the Romanian Simion Cuțov . Solomin was able to assert himself four times at national championships: 1974, 1976, 1977, 1979 he was Soviet champion.

After the end of his active career he worked as a judge for the Russian professional boxing association.

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personal data
SURNAME Solomin, Wassili Anatoljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Соломин, Василий Анатольевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian boxer
DATE OF BIRTH 5th January 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Molotov
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1997