Danas Pozniakas
Armed Forces sports society (1959–1966) Vilnius (1968–1969)Trudovye Rezervy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Danas Pozniakas (19 October 1939 – 4 February 2005) was a Lithuanian amateur light-heavyweight boxer who won the European title in 1965, 1967 and 1969 and an Olympic gold medal in 1968.
Pozniakas was born in Poland as Dan Pozniak, and in the 1950s moved to Vilnius, Lithuania, where he took up boxing at age 13. He won the Soviet title in 1962 and a European silver medal in 1963, but at the 1964 Olympic trials lost to Aleksei Kiselyov and was not selected. By the next Olympics, he was a double European champion and a clear favorite. He decisively won his first three bouts and received the Olympic gold by default, as his opponent Ion Monea had a broken nose from his previous fight and withdrew from the final. Monea lost to Pozniakas in the 1967 and 1969 European championships.[1][2]
Pozniakas became the
References
- ^ a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Danas Pozniakas". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Boxing at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games: Men's Light-Heavyweight". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- Fizkultura i sport. p. 572.
- ^ Pozniakas Danas. Lithuanian Encyclopedia of Sport
External links
- Danas Pozniakas at Olympedia
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