Rufat Riskiyev

Rufat Riskiyev

Riskiyev in 2020
Medal record
Representing  Soviet Union
Men's Boxing
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place1976 MontrealMiddleweight
World Amateur Championships
Gold medal – first place1974 HavanaMiddleweight

Rufat Asadovich Riskiyev (Russian: Руфат Асадович Рискиев, Uzbek: Rufat Risqiyev; 2 October 1949 – 15 August 2026) was an Uzbek boxer, who represented the USSR at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. There he won the silver medal in the middleweight division (– 75 kg). In the final he was defeated by United States youngster Michael Spinks, after the referee had to stop 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.

Riskiyev died on 15 August 2026, at the age of 76.[1]

1976 Olympic results

Below is the record of Rufat Riskiyev, a middleweight boxer from the Soviet Union who competed at the 1976 Montreal Olympics:

References

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