Vladimir Nikitin - Russian boxer in flyweight. Biography and achievement athlete

Vladimir Nikitin is a boxer from Russia in bantamweight (nickname "BARON"). Member of the Russian team since 2009, 3rd place at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, 2nd place at the World Championships (Alma-Ata 2013) and 3rd in the European Championship (Minsk 2013). In 2012, 2014 and 2015, he became the champion of Russia in boxing bantamweight (56 kilograms). The height of the athlete is 169 centimeters.

Biography of the boxer, childhood and youth

He was born on March 25 in 1990 in the urban settlement of Verkhnyaya Maksakovka (Komi Republic, Russia). After a while my family moved to a permanent residence in Stary Oskol (Belgorod region). He was brought up in an ordinary family - his father worked as a blacksmith at the factory, and his mother as an accountant. One day his father gave him a boxing kit for children - a pear and gloves. Then Vladimir was only five years old, but he quickly fell in love with this occupation - boxing on the pear.

Soon the boy began to be interested in the career of the famous boxers. In his room were posters of Mike Tyson, Lenox Lewis, Evander Holyfield and many others. In addition to boxing, the guy also loved football and tennis. At some point in front of him was the choice of what kind of sport to start doing. However, despite some inclinations in football and tennis, Nikitin was devoted to boxing and dreamed of getting to the Olympic Games as a participant. However, he achieved everything he wanted. When the boy turned 9 years old, he was taken to the local sports section, where he started boxing.

Getting to know boxing and the first workouts

From the first days of training began to demonstrate good skills. Young Vladimir Nikitin all grasped on the fly, for which was the priority of the coaches. The guy did not miss a single lesson and every day he perfected his skills. He possessed lightning speed and threw out quick crushing blows. During the sparring, Nikitin was selected by the most serious opponents, regardless of what they are from the weight category. Soon he was transferred to the Comprehensive Children's and Youth School No. 1 (Syktyvkar), where he trained with MA Martynov (USSR boxing champion, honored coach of the USSR).

The first major success was achieved in 2004, when the athlete won gold at the Russian Youth Championship.

Vladimir Nikitin-box, professional career

In 2009, 2010 and 2011, he became a bronze medalist at the adult Russian boxing championship to 56 kilograms. In 2012, for the first time he won the gold medal at the Russian Championship. In the same year, Vladimir Nikitin took part in the European Youth Boxing Championship in Kaliningrad, where he won first place.

International successes

The most successful season in Nikita's career was in 2013, when he was awarded the right to defend the honor of the country at the European Championship in Belarus (Minsk), and after a while at the World Championships in Kazakhstan (Almaty). In these tournaments he won a bronze and silver medal, respectively. At the European Championships, Nikitin reached the semifinals, where he lost on points to Irishman John Joe Nevin, and in the world series reached the finals and lost to Azerbaijanian Javid Chelebiev. In 2014, he again won the Russian boxing championship in the lightest weight category.

Since 2012, Vladimir has become a regular participant in WSB matches ("world series of box" - the world series of boxing). Here he was in the season of 2013/14 managed to reach the stage of the playoffs, where in the stage ¼ final defeated Ukrainian boxer Nikolai Butsenko. In the semifinals, Nikitin easily eliminated the Cuban Norlan Era. However, despite the bright victories of Vladimir, in the overall standings, the Russian national team lost to the Cuban national team and they passed on. In the regular season 2015/16 Vladimir Nikitin went out to box six times out of seven given for the Russian team, in which he managed to win. Thanks to such statistics, he was recognized as the best boxer in bantamweight, due to which the athlete was entitled to participate in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Vladimir Nikitin - Olympics in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro

The debut performance at the Olympiad was successful. The Russian boxer coped with his rivals, as in training. Rapidly, he managed to reach the semifinals, where he was waiting for the American Shakur Stephenson. However, Vladimir could not get out of the fight because of the injury he received in the quarter-finals. Thus, he automatically received a bronze medal.

For his brilliant performance at the Olympics he was awarded the title of "Honored Master of Sports of Russia".