Alexis Vastine (17 November 1986 – 9 March 2015) was a French boxer who won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the Light Welterweight division.

He died in the Villa Castelli helicopter collision during the filming of French TV reality show Dropped for the TF1 network.

[1] At the 2004 junior world championships, Vastine was knocked out by Amir Khan at lightweight and won bronze.

At the 2007 senior world championships in Chicago, he was outpointed by Bradley Saunders at junior welter but qualified for the Olympics.

[5] Vastine went on to suffer what was widely seen as an unjust decision[6] at the 2012 Olympics in London, where he drew on points but lost on countback to top-seeded welterweight Taras Shelestyuk of Ukraine in the quarter-finals, thus missing out on a medal.