1977 European Amateur Boxing Championships

The 1977 European Amateur Boxing Championships
European Amateur Boxing Championships
The European Amateur Boxing Championships is the highest competition for boxing amateurs in Europe, organised by the continent's governing body EUBC, which stands for the European Boxing Confederation...

were held in Halle

Halle, Saxony-Anhalt

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, West Germany

West Germany

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from 28 May to 5 June. The 22nd edition of the bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA. There were 146 fighters from 23 countries participating.

Medal winners

Light Flyweight (– 48 kilograms)	Henryk Średnicki Henryk Srednicki Henryk Średnicki is a retired amateur boxer from Poland, who represented his native country twice at the Summer Olympics, starting in 1976 .... Poland	Georgi Georgiev Bulgaria	Anatoliy Kluyev Soviet Union Philip Sutcliffe Ireland
Flyweight (– 51 kilograms)	Leszek Błażyński Poland	Aleksandr Tkachenko Soviet Union	Plamen Kamburov Bulgaria Nuri Eroğlu Turkey
Bantamweight (– 54 kilograms)	Stefan Förster Stefan Forster Stefan Forster is a German rower.- External links :* at sports-reference.com... East Germany	Teodor Dinu Romania	Manfred König West Germany Dimitar Pehlivanov Bulgaria
Featherweight (– 57 kilograms)	Richard Nowakowski Richard Nowakowski Richard Nowakowski is a retired boxer from East Germany, who won the silver medal in the men's featherweight division at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada... East Germany	Roman Gotfryd Poland	Viktor Rybakov Viktor Rybakov Viktor Grigorievich Rybakov is a retired boxer, who represented the USSR twice at the Summer Olympics during his career as an amateur. He won the bronze medal in the bantamweight division at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, and repeated that feat four years later in Moscow, Soviet... Soviet Union Tidi Tudor Romania
Lightweight (– 60 kilograms)	Ace Rusevski Ace Rusevski Ace Rusevski is a retired Macedonian boxer, who represented Yugoslavia at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. There he won the bronze medal in the lightweight division after being defeated in the semifinals by eventual gold medalist Howard Davis Jr... Yugoslavia	Christian Zornow East Germany	René Weller West Germany Abdel Kerzazi France
Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kilograms)	Bogdan Gajda Poland	Ulrich Beyer West Germany	Calistrat Cuţov Calistrat Cutov Calistrat Cuţov is a former Romanian boxer, who won a bronze medal in the lightweight division at the 1968 Summer Olympics, together with Zvonimir Vujin of Yugoslavia... Romania Memet Bogujevci Yugoslavia
Welterweight (– 67 kilograms)	Valery Limassov Soviet Union	Karl-Heinz Krüger Karl-Heinz Krüger Karl-Heinz Krüger is a retired boxer, who represented East Germany at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. There he won the bronze medal in the welterweight division , after being defeated in the semifinals by eventual gold medalist Andrés Aldama of Cuba... East Germany	Vasile Cicu Romania Plamen Jankov Bulgaria
Light Middleweight (– 71 kilograms)	Viktor Savchenko Viktor Savchenko Viktor Grigorievich Savchenko is a retired boxer, who represented the USSR twice at the Summer Olympics during his career as an amateur... Soviet Union	Markus Intlekofer West Germany	Jerzy Rybicki Jerzy Rybicki Jerzy Rybicki is a retired boxer from Poland, who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal, Canada... Poland Kalevi Marjamaa Finland
Middleweight (– 75 kilograms)	Leonid Shaposhnikov Soviet Union	Bernd Wittenburg Bernd Wittenburg Bernd Wittenburg is a German boxer who won titles for the SC Dynamo Berlin/ Sportvereinigung Dynamo. He won even the GDR-Championships in Boxing 1972,1973, 1974, 1975, 1976.- External links :*... East Germany	Ilya Angelov Bulgaria Svatopluk Žáček Czechoslovakia
Light Heavyweight (– 81 kilograms)	David Kavachadze Soviet Union	Ottomar Sachse East Germany	Ion Györfi Romania Rauno Pellikainen Finland
Heavyweight (+ 81 kilograms)	Yevgeniy Gorstkov Soviet Union	Jürgen Fanghänel Jürgen Fanghänel Jürgen Fanghänel is a retired male boxer, who won the bronze medal for East Germany in the men's heavyweight division at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. There he was defeated in the semi finals by Piotr Zaev of the Soviet Union... East Germany	Mircea Şimon Mircea Simon Mircea Şimon is a retired Romanian boxer. At the 1976 Summer Olympics he won the Heavyweight Silver medal for Romania.-Olympic results:1st round byeDefeated Trevor Berbick 5-0... Romania Atanas Suvandshijev Bulgaria

Medal table

1	Soviet Union	5	1	2	8
2	Poland	3	1	1	5
3	German Democratic Republic	2	6	0	8
4	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	1	0	1	2
=5	Bulgaria	0	1	5	6
=5	Romania	0	1	5	6
7	West Germany	0	1	2	3
8	Finland	0	0	2	2
=9	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
=9	Early Modern France	0	0	1	1
=9	Republic of Ireland	0	0	1	1
=9	Turkey	0	0	1	1
Total		11	11	22	44

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