Georgy Balakshin

Georgy Ruslanovich Balakshin (Russian: Георгий Русланович Балакшин; born March 6, 1980, in Antonovka, near Nyurba, Sakha Republic) is an Olympic boxer from Russia best known for winning the European title three times.

Georgy Balakshin

Georgy Balakshin in November 2016
Personal information
Full name	Георгий Русланович Балакшин
Nationality	Russia
Born	(1980-03-06) March 6, 1980 (age 45) Antonovka, Yakut ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.61 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight	51 kg (112 lb)
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Weight class	Flyweight
Club	Dynamo, Yakutsk
Medal record Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Flyweight World Championships 2001 Belfast Flyweight European Championships 2002 Perm Flyweight 2004 Pula Flyweight 2006 Plovdiv Flyweight 2011 Ankara Flyweight World Cup 2005 Moscow Flyweight

Career

Balakshin won the gold medal in 2002 and defended the crown at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula. He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics 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 Russian team that won the 2005 Boxing World Cup.^[1]

In 2006, he once again won the European title. At the World championships 2007 he beat Frenchman Jérôme Thomas but lost to eventual winner Rau'shee Warren 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 Rau'shee Warren (United States) 21-31

2007 (as a flyweight)

• Defeated Jérôme Thomas (France) 25-11
• Defeated Nurlan Aydarbek Ulu (Kyrgyzstan) RSCI 3
• Defeated Jitender Kumar (India) 14-9
• Lost to Rau'shee Warren (United States) 13-23