Detlef Kästner (born 20 March 1958) is a retired
boxer, who represented
East Germany
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at the
1980 Summer Olympics in
Moscow
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,
Soviet Union
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. There he won the bronze medal in the
light middleweight division (– 71 kg), after being defeated in the semifinals by eventual silver medalist
Aleksandr Koshkyn of the
USSR
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.
Olympic results
*1st round bye
*Defeated
Adeoye Adetunji (Nigeria) KO 3
*Defeated
Leonidas Njunwa (Tanzania) 5–0
*Lost to
Aleksandr Koshkin (Soviet Union) 0–5
References
1958 births
Living people
People from Wurzen
Light-middleweight boxers
Boxers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers of East Germany
Olympic bronze medalists for East Germany
Olympic medalists in boxing
Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
German male boxers
Sportspeople from Saxony
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