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Aleksandr Petrovich Leonov (Russian: Александр Петрович Леонов; born July 17, 1978) is a boxer from Russia, who competed for his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
He was born January 23, 1957 in Yakutsk.
In 1980 he graduated from Yakutsk State University, historical department.
In the same year, he won the Universiade of the RSFSR of Central Asia and Kazakhstan.
Leonov is best known for winning the gold medal at 2000 European Amateur Boxing Championships in the Men's Light-Welterweight (– 63.5 kg) division. In the final he defeated Bulgaria's Dimitar Stilianov.
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He participated in the training of the Honored Master of Sports of Russia Georgy Balakshin, international masters of sports Bato Vankeev, Afanasy Poskachin, Dmitry Fedorov, Innokenty Makarov, masters of sports Renat Khabibulin, Viktor Prushenov, Maxim Vasiliev, Vladimir Budaev, Peter Fokin, Dmitry Maksimov, Nikolai Dmitriev, Andrei Trofimov, Gavril Savinov, Daniil Solzhigasov, Andrey Sleptsov and more than 20 Russian sports masters who studied at the college Olympic Reserve.
Aleksandr Leonov has two daughters.
