Vladimir Safronov

Who was Vladimir Safronov?

Vladimir Konstantinovich Safronov was a featherweight amateur boxer.

Safronov trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Chita, Irkutsk, Moscow. He became the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1957 and was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor in the same year. He became the first boxer of the USSR to win a gold medal at Olympics. He won gold in Boxing at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne in the featherweight division. During his career Safronov won 564 fights out of 565.

Safronov graduated from Moscow Poligraphy Institute in 1963 and worked as an art editor at Fizkultura i sport publisher.