Name Sergei Sivko Role Boxer | Died 1996 Martial art Boxing | |
Olympic medals Boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics - Flyweight People also search for Gyula Torok, Abdel Moneim El-Guindi, Kiyoshi Tanabe | ||
Sergey Aleksandrovich Sivko (Russian: Сергей Александрович Сивко, 7 June 1940 – 10 November 1966) was a Russian amateur boxer. In 1960 he won the Soviet flyweight title and an Olympic silver medal. Next year he moved to the bantamweight division and won the Soviet and European titles. He died aged 26 in 1966. Since 1975, an annual boxing tournament has been held in his honor in Moscow.
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