Vyacheslav Lemeshev
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men's Boxing | ||
| Representing the Soviet Union | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
| 1972 Munich | Middleweight | |
| European Amateur Championships | ||
| 1973 Belgrade | Middleweight | |
| 1975 Katowice | Middleweight | |
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Lemeshev (Russian: Вячеслав Иванович Лемешев) (April 3, 1952 in Moscow — January 27, 1996) was an Olympic boxer from the USSR. Soviet physiologists, while examining Lemeshev abilities with electronic measuring devices, discovered his extremely fast, split-second reaction, uncommon not only for boxers, but for the other athletes as well, and decisive when it comes to the counterpunches and cross-counters, in which he was one of the best in the entire middleweight, though severe trauma of the left hand (Lemeshev was a southpaw) ended his olympic career, and boxing career as well, when resulted in several knockout losses in a row.