Vladimir Nikolaevich Yengibaryan (born April 24, 1932 in Yerevan, Armenia) is a former welterweight

Welterweight

Welterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like kickboxing, taekwondo and mixed martial arts also began to use it for their own weight division system...

 boxer

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

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Yengibaryan trained at Trudovye Rezervy

Trudovye Rezervy

Trudovye Rezervy — voluntary sport society of students of professional-technical schools in the USSR and later in post-Soviet countries.Founded on June 19th, 1943 as an all-union voluntary sport society and operated by the trade unions. In 1975 5,538 physical culture collectives by the educational...

 in Yerevan

Yerevan

Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...

, Armenia

Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...

. He was an amateur boxer for the USSR

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

, who won the Light welterweight (63.5 kg) gold medal at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic games. In 1957 he became the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Order of the Red Banner of Labour

The Order of the Red Banner of Labour was an order of the Soviet Union for accomplishments in labour and civil service. It is the labour counterpart of the military Order of the Red Banner. A few institutions and factories, being the pride of Soviet Union, also received the order.-History:The Red...

 on the same year. After finishing his career he founded the first in the USSR boxing Children and Youth Sport School in Yerevan. Since 1992 he lives in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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. He has been suffering from Alzheimer's dementia for the past few years.http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alzheimer%27s_dementia&redirect=no

Olympic results

• 1st round bye
• Defeated Leszek Drogosz
  Leszek Drogosz
  Leszek Drogosz is a retired Polish boxer and actor.He thrice won the gold medal at the European Amateur Boxing Championships in the Light welterweight division at Warsaw 1953 and West Berlin 1955, and in the Welterweight division at Lucerne 1959. He participated in the Summer Olympics in Helsinki...
  
   (Poland) points
• Defeated Claude Saluden (France) points
• Defeated Henry Loubscher
  Henry Loubscher
  Henry Loubscher is a former boxer from South Africa, bronze medalist at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.-References:...
  
   (South Africa) points
• Defeated Franco Nenci
  Franco Nenci
  Franco Nenci is a former welterweight boxer.Nenci represented Italy at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, winning a silver medal as a Light Welterweight.- Olympic results :*Defeated Rehmat Gul KO 3...
  
  (Italy) points