Richard Nowakowski is a retired boxer

Boxing

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 from East Germany, who won the silver medal in the men's featherweight

Featherweight

Featherweight is a weight class division in the sport of boxing. There are similarly named divisions under several Mixed Martial Arts organizations and in Greco-Roman wrestling.-Professional boxing:...

 division (– 57 kg) at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Boxing at the 1976 Summer Olympics

There were eleven boxing events at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.-Light Flyweight :-First Round:* Armando Guevara def. Eduardo Baltar , 5:0* Li Byong-Uk def. Sidney McKnight , KO-1...

 in Montreal, Canada. There he was defeated in the final by Ángel Herrera of Cuba

Cuba

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.

Four years later, when Moscow

Moscow

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 hosted the Summer Games, Nowakowski competed in the lightweight

Lightweight

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 category (– 60 kg), and captured the bronze medal. The same he did in 1982, at the World Championships

1982 World Amateur Boxing Championships

The Men's 1982 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Munich, West Germany from May 4 to 15. The third edition of this competition, held two years before the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, was organised by the world governing body for amateur boxing AIBA.- Medal winners...

 in Munich

Munich

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, West Germany

West Germany

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Olympic results

1976

• 1st round bye
• Defeated Ruben Mares (Philippines) 5-0
• Defeated Behzad Ghaedi Bardeh (Iran) RSC 3
• Defeated Gheorghe Ciochina (Romania) RSC 3
• Defeated Leszek Kosedowski
  Leszek Kosedowski
  Leszek Marian Kosedowski is a retired boxer from Poland, who won the bronze medal in the men's featherweight division at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada...
  
   (Poland) 5-0
• Lost to Ángel Herrera (Cuba) KO 2

1980

• Defeated Christopher Ossai (Nigeria) 5-0
• Defeated Geofrey Nyeko (Uganda) RSC 1
• Defeated George Gilbody (Great Britain) 5-0
• Lost to Viktor Demyanenko
  Viktor Demyanenko
  Viktor Leonidovich Demyanenko is a retired boxer, who represented the USSR at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. There he won the silver medal in the lightweight division , after being defeated in the final by Cuba's Ángel Herrera. Demyanenko trained at Dynamo in Alma-Ata. He won...
  
  (Soviet Union) RSC 1