Georgy Ruslanovich Balakshin (; born March 6, 1980, in Antonovka, near Nyurba,

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) is an Olympic boxer from

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best known for winning the European title three times.

Career

Balakshin won the gold medal in 2002 and defended the crown at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in

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. He participated in the

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for his native Russia. There he was stopped in the quarterfinals of the Flyweight (51 kg) division by Cuba's eventual winner Yuriorkis Gamboa Toledano. In 2005 he was part of the

n team that won the 2005 Boxing World Cup. In 2006, he once again won the European title. At the World championships 2007 he beat Frenchman

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but lost to eventual winner

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of America. At the 2011 European Amateur Boxing Championships he won silver.

Olympic results

2004 (as a flyweight) *Defeated Bonyx Yusak Saweho (Indonesia) 26-19 *Defeated Mirzhan Rakhimzhanov (Kazakhstan) 29-20 *Lost to Yuriorkis Gamboa (Cuba) 18-26 2008 (as a flyweight) *1st round bye *Defeated Mirat Sarsembayev (Kazakhstan) 12-4 *Defeated Jitender Kumar (India) 15-11 *Lost to Andry Laffita (Cuba) 8-9

World amateur championships results

2003 (as a flyweight) *Defeated Akhil Kumar (India) 26-16 *Defeated Hermensen Ballo (Indonesia) 22-8 *Lost to Alexander Vladimirov (Bulgaria) 24-33 2005 (as a flyweight) *Defeated Bradley Hore (Australia) 25-11 *Defeated Atagun Yalcinkaya (Turkey) 36-15 *Lost to

(United States) 21-31 2007 (as a flyweight) *Defeated

(France) 25-11 *Defeated Nurlan Aydarbek Ulu (Kyrgyzstan) RSCI 3 *Defeated Jitender Kumar (India) 14-9 *Lost to

(United States) 13-23

References

External links

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* 1980 births Living people Flyweight boxers Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for Russia Olympic bronze medalists for Russia Olympic medalists in boxing Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Russian male boxers Sportspeople from Sakha North-Eastern Federal University alumni AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists 21st-century Russian sportsmen {{Russia-Olympic-medalist-stub