Kiselev Aleksey Ivanovich - Soviet professional boxer, belonging to the second middle and light heavy weight category, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR. He played for the national team of the USSR in the 60s. Among his sporting achievements are the following: silver at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 (in the category up to 81 kilograms), silver at the Olympic Games in Mexico City (in the category up to 75 kilograms) in 1968 and silver at the European Championship in Rome in 1967 year (75 kg). After completing his boxing career, he began to train the Soviet Union boxing team.
Alexey Kiselev: Biography, acquaintance with boxing and the first triumphs
Born March 17, 1938 in Lukyanovka, Ryazan Region, USSR. He grew up and was brought up in a simple Soviet family. My father was a blacksmith, and my mother worked as a cook in the school cafeteria. From childhood, he was distinguished by seriousness and perseverance. The guy loved active and outdoor games, and also pulled himself well on the horizontal bar. At the age of sixteen, he first enrolled in the boxing section and began training under the leadership of Ivan Ganykin (Soviet boxer of all middle weight categories). After two years of hard training, the guy became famous all over the world: in 1958 he won the middleweight title at a tournament of military personnel around the world. Having established himself in the boxing community, he was invited to speak at the championship of the Soviet Union. It was a high-level debut professional tournament, where in 1959 he won his first medal in the national championship - bronze.
Boxer Alexei Kiselev: sports career and achievements
Over the next four years, he boxed at about the same level and twice repeated success at the Army World Cup. In 1964, Aleksey Kiselev went into light heavyweight and made his debut in the national championship. Here he won his first gold in the Soviet championship. Soon, great victories begin in Kiselev’s career: highly rated results awarded the boxer the right to defend the country's heritage at the Olympics in Tokyo (Japan). By the way, the Soviet athlete proved himself worthy: Alexei Kiselev reached the finals, but lost to Italian professional Cosimo Pinto. As a result, Kiselev brought home a silver medal, for which he received the title of Honored Master of Sports of the USSR. The following seasons of Kiselev were no less triumphant: the boxer won the army world championship again, won gold in the national championship (1966), and also won silver at the 1967 European Championship and 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City (lost to the British boxer Chris in the final Finneganu).
After a successful sports decade, which was full of awards and universal recognition, Alexei Kiselev announced his retirement. The boxer's statistics are impressive: 225 wins in 250 fights.
Coach career: merit and achievement
Leaving the professional ring, Kiselev remained in boxing, however, as a coach. He led the USSR national boxing team from 1969 to 1970. and from 1975 to 1980. In 1979 he received the title of Honored Trainer of the USSR. According to his leadership, the USSR boxing team performed at the Olympics in 1976 (Montreal) and 1980 (Moscow).
Academic degrees in physical education and the position of a Soviet trainer
The athlete also engaged in scientific activities. In 1972, Alexei Kiselev defended his Ph.D. in technical sciences. Since 1975, he was head of the department of physical education at the Moscow Higher School named after Nikolai Ernestovich Bauman. Kiselev is the author of several scientific and methodological works in the field of sports. Since 1993, Alexey Kiselev held the vacant post of chairman of the Russian Sports University.
He died on June 19, 2005 in the city of Moscow, was buried at the Don cemetery.