Vassily Solomin

Vassily Solomin
Medal record
Men's Boxing
Representing the  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
1976 MontrealLightweight
World Amateur Championships
1974 HavanaLightweight

Vassily Anatolyevich Solomin (Russian: Василий Анатольевич Соломин, 5 January 1953, in Perm – 28 December 1997, in Perm) was a boxer who represented the Soviet Union at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. There, he won a bronze medal in the lightweight division (– 60 kg), after being beaten in the semifinals by Romania's eventual silver medalist Simion Cuţov.

Solomin began training under Yuri Podshivalov in 1969 at Trudovye Rezervy in Perm. He won the world title at the inaugural 1974 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Havana, Cuba. From 1975 he represented the Armed Forces sports society. He was coached by Viktor Ageev.