Rufat Riskiyev

Rufat Riskiyev

Medal record
Representing Soviet Union
Men's Boxing
Olympic Games
	1976 Montreal	Middleweight
World Amateur Championships
	1974 Havana	Middleweight

Rufat Asadovich Riskiyev (Russian: Руфат Асадович Рискиев) (born October 2, 1949 in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR) is a retired boxer, who represented the USSR at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. There he won the silver medal in the middleweight division (– 75 kg). In the final he was defeated by United States-boxer Michael Spinks, after the referee stopped the contest in the third round.

Two years earlier, at the inaugural 1974 World Championships in Havana, Cuba, Riskiyev won the world title. He trained at the Dynamo sports society.

Olympic results

• Defeated Jorma Taipale (Finland) KO 3
• Defeated Ilya Dimitrov (Bulgaria) 5-0
• Defeated Siraj Din (Pakistan) RSC 3
• Defeated Luis Felipe Martínez (Cuba) 3-2
• Lost to Michael Spinks (United States) RSC 3

References

• databaseOlympics