Evald Seepere (born ''Seeberg'', 4 May 1911 – 22 February 1990) was an
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
n amateur featherweight
boxer Boxer most commonly refers to:
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. He competed in the
1934 European Championships and
1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp ...
, but was eliminated in a second-round bout.
[ Seepere studied in Moscow in 1942–43, and later for 43 years worked as a boxing coach in Estonia.][
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1936 Olympic results
* Round of 32: defeated Nicolae Berechet
Nicolae Berechet (April 16, 1915 in Dioşti, Dolj County – August 14, 1936 in Berlin) was a Romanian boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
On August 11, 1936 he was eliminated in the first round of the featherweight class after los ...
(Romania) on points
* Round of 16: lost to Theodore Kara (United States) on points
References
1911 births
1990 deaths
People from the Governorate of Estonia
Estonian male boxers
Featherweight boxers
Olympic boxers of Estonia
Boxers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
20th-century Estonian people
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