Bernd Wittenburg (born 1 April 1950 in

Neukloster Neukloster is a town in the east of the district of Nordwestmecklenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. This town is the administrative center of the bureau Neukloster-Warin, which includes eight more communes. Neukloster is close to th ...

) is an East German former middleweight boxer who competed at the 1976 Montreal Olympics and who won titles for the

SC Dynamo Berlin The Sports Club Dynamo Berlin was an East German sports club that existed from 1954 to 1991. It was the largest sports club of SV Dynamo, the sports association of the security agencies. The club was disbanded after German reunification and even ...

Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo The Sportvereinigung Dynamo () (''Dynamo Sports Association'') was the sport association of the security agencies (Volkspolizei, Ministry for State Security, fire department and customs) of former East Germany. The association was founded on 27 ...

. He won the GDR Championships in boxing in 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 and 1976.Berliner Boxverband e.V. Berliner Medaillengewinner und Teilnehmer bei Olympischen Spielen, Weltmeisterschaften, Weltcup, Europameisterschaften, Deutsche Meister

1976 Olympic results

* Round of 32: defeated

Bryan Gibson Bryan Gibson (born November 10, 1947 in Kentville, Nova Scotia) is a retired boxer from Canada, who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics, and is the first boxer of African descent from Nova Scotia to compete in the Olympics. ...

(Canada) by a third-round knockout * Round of 16: lost to Luis Martínez (Cuba) by decision, 2-3

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* 1950 births Living people Middleweight boxers German male boxers Olympic boxers for East Germany Boxers at the 1976 Summer Olympics AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists People from Nordwestmecklenburg {{Germany-boxing-bio-stub