Male, Amateur

(Velikton Innokentyevich Barannikov)
(Виликтон Иннокентьевич Баранников)
Lightweight, Soviet Union, Moscow, Russia
Born: 4 July 1938, Ulan-Ude, Russia, Soviet Union
Died: 29 November 2007, Ulan-Ude, Russia
(was killed in a traffic incident)
Height: 5ft 3in, mt 1,60

1960, 1961, 1962 and 1965 Soviet Union lightweight runner-up
1960 Roma, Italy, Olympic Games lightweight quarter-finals
1964 Tokyo, Japan, Olympic Games lightweight silver medal
Wpts 4:1 Luis Zúñiga, Chile
Wpts 5:0 Adrian Blair, Australia
Wko 2 Janos Kajdi, Hungary
Wpts 3:2 James Vincent McCourt, Ireland
Lpts 5:0 Jozef Grudzien, Poland
1965 Berlin, East Germany, European Championships gold medal
1967 Roma, Italy, European Championships lightweight prelimnaries

Despite his international success he never won a national title,
finishing in second place in 1960, 1962 and 1965.

amateur record: 275 fights: 228-47-0