Adolfo Horta (3 October 1957 – 28 November 2016) was a

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, who won the silver medal in the Men's Featherweight division (– 57 kg) at age 22 at the

1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...

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. He was beaten by

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Rudi Fink Rudi Fink (born 6 June 1958) is a retired boxer, who won the gold medal in the featherweight division (−57 kg) for East Germany at the 1980 Summer Olympics. Biography Fink took up boxing at the age of nine. He won the national title in ...

on points (1-4).Falleció Adolfo Horta, el hombre del boxeo total
Horta won eleven consecutive

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and three gold medals in the

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in different weight classes, but he would never return to the Olympics, as Cuba boycotted the

1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the secon ...

1980 Olympic results

*Round of 64: bye *Round of 32:

Odd Bengtsson Odd Bengtsson (born 19 February 1959) is a Swedish boxer. He competed in the men's featherweight event at the 1980 Summer Olympics. At the 1980 Summer Olympics, he lost to Adolfo Horta Adolfo Horta (3 October 1957 – 28 November 2016) ...

(Sweden) by decision, 5-0 *Round of 16: Titi Cercel (Romania) by decision, 5-0 *Quarterfinal: Defeated Luis Pizarro (Puerto Rico) by decision, 5-0 *Semifinal: Defeated

Krysztof Kosedowski Krzysztof Kazimierz Kosedowski (born December 12, 1960 in Tczew) is a retired boxer from Poland, who won the bronze medal in the featherweight division (– 57 kg) at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. In the semifinals h ...

(Poland) by walkover *Final: Lost to

(East Germany) by decision, 1-4 (was awarded silver medal)

1980 Olympic results

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