Rufat Asadovich Riskiyev (russian: Руфат Асадович Рискиев) (born October 2, 1949 in Akkurgan, Uzbek SSR) is a retired

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, who represented the

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at the

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in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. There he won the silver medal in the

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division (– 75 kg). In the final he was defeated by

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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

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, Riskiyev won the world title. He trained at the

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1976 Olympic results

Below is the record of Rufat Riskiyev, a middleweight boxer from the Soviet Union who competed at the 1976 Montreal Olympics: *Round of 32: Defeated Jorma Taipale (Finland) KO 3 *Round of 16: Defeated Ilya Dimitrov (Bulgaria) by decision, 5-0 *Quarterfinal: Defeated Siraj-ud-Din (Pakistan) RSC 3 *Semifinal: Defeated Luis Martínez (Cuba) by decision, 3-2 *Final: Lost to Michael Spinks (United States) RSC 3 (was awarded silver medal)

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