Rufat Riskiyev, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Rufat Riskiyev

boxer

Date of Birth: 02-Oct-1949

Place of Birth: Akkurgan, Tashkent Region, Uzbekistan

Profession: boxer

Nationality: Uzbekistan

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Rufat Asadovich Riskiyev (Russian: ????? ???????? ???????) (born October 2, 1949 in Akkurgan, Uzbek SSR) is a retired boxer, who represented the USSR at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
There he won the silver medal in the middleweight division (– 75 kg).
In the final he was defeated by United States 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 Havana, Cuba, Riskiyev won the world title.
He trained at the Dynamo sports society.