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Aleksei Zasukhin

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Sport
  
Boxing

Died
  
May 27, 1996

Role
  
Boxer

Name
  
Aleksei Zasukhin

Club
  
Dynamo Yekaterinburg


Born
  
18 March 1937
Yekaterinburg, Russia

Aleksei Fedoseyevich Zasukhin (Russian: Александр Федосеевич Засухин, 18 March 1937 – 27 May 1996) was a Soviet boxer who won a national title and a European silver medal in 1961. He retired in 1962 after finishing second in the Soviet championships. During his career Zasukhin won 150 bouts our of 170. He graduated from the Belarusian State University of Physical Training, and later worked as a boxing coach in Yekaterinburg and in Saint Petersburg. His elder brother Aleksandr was an Olympic boxer and an inspiration for Aleksei.

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Aleksei Zasukhin Wikipedia