Yuri Radonyak

Name: Yuri Radonyak
Birth Name: Юрий Михайлович Радоняк
Hometown: Moscow, Russia
Birthplace: Grozny, Russia
Died: 2013-03-28 (Age:77)
Amateur Boxer: Record

Yuri Radonyak (born September 8, 1935 in Grozny, USSR – died March 28, 2013 in Moscow, Russia) was an amateur boxer from the Soviet Union, who was the Welterweight silver medalist at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games. Radonyak was defeated in the final by Nino Benvenuti of Italy.

Olympic games results

1960 (as a welterweight)

• Defeated Bruno Guse (United Team of Germany) 3-2
• Defeated Joseph Lartey (Ghana) KO 2
• Defeated Andres Navarro Moreno (Spain) 4-1
• Defeated Lech Drogosz (Poland) 3-2
• Lost to Nino Benvenuti (Italy) 1-4

Trainer

After his boxing career, Radonyak worked as a boxing coach, coaching CSKA Moskva from 1962-73. Radonyak was later the head coach of the Soviet national boxing team from 1973 to 1976, serving as the head coach for the 1972 and 1976 Soviet boxing teams.