Rudi Fink
Encyclopedia
Rudi Fink is a retired boxer
from Germany
, who won the gold medal in the Featherweight division (-57 kg) for East Germany at the 1980 Summer Olympics
in Moscow
.
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
from Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, who won the gold medal in the Featherweight division (-57 kg) for East Germany at the 1980 Summer Olympics
1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Moscow in the Soviet Union. In addition, the yachting events were held in Tallinn, and some of the preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football tournament...
in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
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Olympic results
- Defeated Hannu KaislamaHannu KaislamaHannu Juhani Olavi Kaislama is a retired male boxer from Finland, who represented his native country at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. There he lost in the first round of the men's featherweight division to East Germany's eventual gold medalist Rudi Fink.-References:*...
(Finland) 5-0 - Defeated Esmail Mohamad (Afghanistan) KO 1
- Defeated Carlos GonzalezCarlos González (boxer)For the Mexican boxer with the same name born in 1959 see Carlos González Carlos González Ferrer , was a boxer from Xochimilco, Mexico, and a former WBO world junior welterweight champion....
(Mexico) KO 2 - Defeated Winfred Kabunda (Zambia) 4-1
- Defeated Viktor RybakovViktor RybakovViktor 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) 4-1 - Defeated Adolfo HortaAdolfo HortaAdolfo Horta is a retired boxer from Cuba, who won the silver medal in the Men's Featherweight division at age 22 at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow...
(Cuba) 4-1