Valerian Sergeevich Sokolov (born August 30, 1946 in the village of Shikhobylovo, Urmarsky District

Urmarsky District

Urmarsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the twenty-one in the Chuvash Republic, Russia. It is located in the northeastern portion of the republic and borders with Kozlovsky District in the north, Tsivilsky District in the northwest, Yantikovsky District in the south,...

, Chuvash ASSR) is a former Soviet bantamweight

Bantamweight

Bantamweight is usually a class in boxing for boxers who weigh above 115 pounds and up to 118 pounds . However, in Mixed Martial Arts it is 134-136 pounds . Wrestling also has similar weight classes including bantamweight...

 amateur 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...

 who won the gold medal at the 1968 Summer Games

Boxing at the 1968 Summer Olympics

-Medal table:- Light Flyweight :-First Round:* Tahar Aziz def. David Nata , 4:1* Hubert Skrzypczak def. Mohamed Sohem , 5:0* Joseph Donovan def. György Gedó , TKO-2...

. He trained at Dynamo in Cheboksary

Cheboksary

-Twin towns/sister cities:Cheboksary is twinned with: Eger in Hungary Antalya in Turkey Santa Clara in CubaAlso Partnerships are shown with: Rundu in Namibia -External links:****...

. Sokolov became the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1968 and was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor

Order of the Badge of Honor

The Order of the Badge of Honour was a civilian award of the Soviet Union.It was instituted on 25 November 1935 and conferred on citizens of the USSR for outstanding achievements in production, scientific research and social, cultural and other forms of social activity, for promotion of economic,...

 in 1969. During his career he won 196 fights out of 216.

Olympic results

• Quartefinals - Defeated Samuel Mbugua
  Samuel Mbugua
  Samuel Mbugua is a retired boxer from Kenya, who won the bronze medal in the lightweight division at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. In the semifinals he was defeated by Poland's eventual gold medalist Jan Szczepański .-References:*...
  
   (Kenya) 5-0
• Semifinals - Defeated Eiji Marioka (Japan) 5-0
• Final - Defeated Eridadi Mukwanga
  Eridadi Mukwanga
  Eridari Mukwanga was a Ugandan boxer, silver medalist at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.- Amateur Highlights :Bantamweight silver medalist at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Results were:...
  
  (Uganda) TKO 2