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Viktor Miroshnichenko
Viktor Miroshnichenko (; born 1 December 1959 in Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR) is a retired Ukrainian boxer, who represented the USSR at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. There he won the silver medal in the flyweight division (– 51 kg), after being defeated in the final by Bulgaria's Petar Lesov. Two years later he captured the silver medal at the World Championships in Munich, West Germany. Miroshnichenko trained at Dynamo in Donetsk. 1980 Olympic results Below are the results of Viktor Miroshnichenko, a flyweight boxer from the Soviet Union who competed at the 1980 Moscow Olympics: *Round of 32: bye *Round of 16: Defeated Jorge Hernández (Cuba) by decision, 4-1 *Quarterfinal: Defeated Henryk Średnicki (Poland) by decision, 5-0 *Semifinal: Defeated János Váradi János Váradi (born 28 February 1961 in Kemecse, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg) is a retired Hungarian people, Hungarian boxing, boxer, who won the Olympic medalists in boxing, bronze medal in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainsk
Ukrainsk (, ; , ) is a city in Selydove urban hromada, Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. The population was estimated at 10,655 in 2022, which went down from 13,236 in 2001. The city has been under Russian occupation since September 2024. Geography The city of Ukrainsk is located 11km from the town of Selydove, not far from the international M04 ( E50) motorway, and 4km from the Tsukuryne railway station, from which one can get to the towns of Kurakhove, Donetsk, Selydove and Pokrovsk. History Founding and expansion In 1952, geologists discovered large deposits of coking coal in proximity of the area of the later settlement. Following that, the settlement "Lisivka" was founded in connection with the construction of the "Lisivka" or later ), to exploit the newly discovered resources. It was followed by the construction of the Selydivska-Pivdenna coal mine. At the same time, residential construction was also underway. In 1957, elections to the village council were h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulgaria
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of and is the tenth largest within the European Union and the List of European countries by area, sixteenth-largest country in Europe by area. Sofia is the nation's capital and List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, largest city; other major cities include Burgas, Plovdiv, and Varna, Bulgaria, Varna. One of the earliest societies in the lands of modern-day Bulgaria was the Karanovo culture (6,500 BC). In the 6th to 3rd century BC, the region was a battleground for ancient Thracians, Persians, Celts and Ancient Macedonians, Macedonians; stability came when the Roman Empire conquered the region in AD 45. After the Roman state splintered, trib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flyweight Boxers
Flyweight is a weight class in combat sports. Boxing Flyweight is a class in boxing which includes fighters weighing up to and including 51 kg (112 lb) for a title fight. Professional boxing The flyweight division was the last of boxing's eight traditional weight classes to be established. Before 1909, anyone below featherweight was considered a bantamweight, regardless of how small the boxer. In 1911, the organization that eventually became the British Boxing Board of Control held a match that crowned Sid Smith (boxer), Sid Smith as the first flyweight champion of the world. Jimmy Wilde, who reigned from 1916 to 1923, was the first fighter recognized both in Britain and the United States as a flyweight champion. Other notable flyweights include Victor Perez (Tunisian boxer), Victor Perez, Francisco Guilledo, Pancho Villa, Walter McGowan, Pascual Pérez (boxing), Pascual Pérez, Pone Kingpetch, Salvatore Burruni, Fighting Harada, Masao Ohba, Chartchai Chionoi, Efren Tor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dynamo Sports Club Sportspeople
file:DynamoElectricMachinesEndViewPartlySection USP284110.png, "Dynamo Electric Machine" (end view, partly section, ) A dynamo is an electrical generator that creates direct current using a commutator (electric), commutator. Dynamos employed electromagnets for self-starting by using residual magnetic field left in the iron cores of electromagnets (i.e. field coils). If dynamo were never run before it was usual to use a separate battery to Excitation (magnetic), excite or ''flash the field'' of the electromagnets to enable self-starting. Dynamos were the first practical electrical generators capable of delivering power for industry, and the foundation upon which many other later Electric power conversion, electric-power conversion devices were based, including the electric motor, the Alternating current, alternating-current alternator, and the rotary converter. Today, the simpler and more reliable alternator dominates large scale Electricity generation, power generation, for effic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Male Boxers
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the largest country by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries, and the third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, its government and economy were highly centralized. As a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), it was a flagship communist state. Its capital and largest city was Moscow. The Soviet Union's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917. The new government, led by Vladimir Lenin, established the Russian SFSR, the world's first constitutionally communist state. The revolution was not accepted by all wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1959 Births
Events January * January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 – Soviet lunar probe Luna 1 is the first human-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reaches the vicinity of Earth's Moon, where it was intended to crash-land, but instead becomes the first spacecraft to go into heliocentric orbit. * January 3 ** Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. ** The southernmost island of the Maldives archipelago, Addu Atoll, declares its independence from the Kingdom of the Maldives, initiating the United Suvadive Republic. * January 4 ** In Cuba, rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city of Havana. ** Léopoldville riots: At least 49 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the ABAKO Party in Kinshasa, Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo. * January 6 – The International Maritime Organization is inaugurated. * January 7 – The United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Lessov
Petar Lesov (, born 12 September 1960) is a former Bulgarian boxer, who won the Flyweight Gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He is a two-time European champion in the flyweight division (1981 and 1983). Lesov is currently a boxing coach. Amateur career Below is the Olympic record of Petar Lesov, a Bulgarian flyweight boxer who competed in the 1980 Moscow Olympics: *Round of 32: Defeated Onofre Ramírez (Nicaragua) by decision, 5-0 *Round of 16: Defeated Hassen Sherif (Ethiopia) by decision, 5-0 *Quarterfinal: Defeated Gilberto Roman (Mexico) by decision, 4-1 *Semifinal: Defeated Hugh Russell (Ireland) by decision, 5-0 *Final: Defeated Viktor Miroshnichenko Viktor Miroshnichenko (; born 1 December 1959 in Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR) is a retired Ukrainian boxer, who represented the USSR at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. There he won the silver medal in the flyweight division (– 5 ... (USSR) by a second-round TKO (won gold medal) Professional career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
János Váradi
János Váradi (born 28 February 1961 in Kemecse, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg) is a retired Hungarian people, Hungarian boxing, boxer, who won the Olympic medalists in boxing, bronze medal in the flyweight division (– 51 kg) at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He also captured the silver medals at the 1987 European Amateur Boxing Championships, 1987 and 1989 European Amateur Boxing Championships. Professional career Váradi turned pro in 1990 and retired shortly thereafter, in 1991. His record was 5-0-0 with one no contest. Olympic Games *1980 Moscow Olympic Results - Boxed as a Flyweight (51 kg) **Round of 16 - Defeated Rabi Raj Thapa (Nepal) referee stopped contest in first round **Quarterfinals - Defeated Daniel Radu (boxer), Daniel Radu (Romania) by decision, 4-1 **Semifinals - Lost to Viktor Miroshnichenko (Soviet Union) by decision, 1-4 (was awarded bronze medal) *1988 Seoul Olympic Results - Boxed as a Flyweight (51 kg) **Round of 64 - bye **Round of 32 - Defeat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henryk Średnicki
Henryk Średnicki (17 January 1955, Siemianowice Śląskie, Poland – 10 April 2016, Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland) was a Polish amateur boxer who represented his native country twice at the Summer Olympics, starting in 1976. Średnicki was best known for winning the world title at the second World Amateur Boxing Championships in 1978, beating Cuba's Héctor Ramírez (boxer), Héctor Ramírez in the final. Biography Sports career He was one of the most outstanding boxers in the second half of the 1970s. As the only Pole so far, he has won a gold medal at the world championships. He did it in 1978, during the II World Championships in Belgrade in flyweight, after winning four fights. He also competed in the 1st Havana Championship in 1974 in paper weighting, but without success. He was twice the champion of Europe. At his first European championship, in Katowice in 1975, he was eliminated in the quarter-finals in paper weighting, in two more: in Halle in 1977 in paper weight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Hernández (boxer)
Jorge Hernández (November 17, 1954 – December 12, 2019) born in Havana was a boxer from Cuba, who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. There he won the gold medal in the light flyweight division (– 48 kg) by defeating North Korea's Li Byong-Uk in the final. Four years later, when Moscow hosted the Games, he was eliminated in the second round in the flyweight division (– 51 kg). Hernández won the world title at the inaugural 1974 World Championships in Havana, Cuba, followed by the silver medal four years later, when Belgrade hosted the World Championships. He also captured the gold at the 1975 Pan American Games. Results 1976 Olympic Games :* Round of 32 Defeated Beyhan Fuchedzhiev (Bulgaria) RSC 3 :* Round of 16: Defeated Zoffa Yarawi (Papua New Guinea) KO 3 :* Quarterfinal: Defeated Chan-Hee Park (South Korea) by decision, 3–2 :* Semifinal: Defeated Orlando Maldonado (Puerto Rico) by decision, 5–0 :* Final: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dynamo (sports Society)
"Dynamo", also Dinamo (; ; ; ka, დინამო, tr), is a sports and physical training, fitness society created in 1923 in the Soviet Union. The society was an association of multi-sport clubs whose members were drawn from the NKVD and, after World War II, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Soviet Union), MVD and the KGB. With the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe after World War II, similar Dynamo societies were established throughout the Eastern Bloc, such as SV Dynamo (East Germany). Overview Name The name given to the society was supposed to mean "Power in Motion", taken from the Greek language, Greek: δύναμις; ''dynamis'' -power, and Latin: ''motio'', -motion. Not coincidentally, this term was first coined earlier by a Belgian inventor Zénobe Gramme for the dynamo, electrical generator. Dynamo, together with Armed Forces sports societies, made up the universal system of physical education and sports of the USSR. Forty-five sports disciplines were sanctioned by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
