Günter Siegmund (19 December 1936 – 13 September 2020) was an

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who won the bronze medal in international competitions in both 1960 and 1961. He competed for the

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1960 Olympic results

Below are the results of Gunter Siegmund, an East German heavyweight boxer who competed at the 1960 Rome Olympics: * Round of 32: bye * Round of 16: defeated Max Bösiger (Switzerland) * Quarterfinal: defeated

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(Romania) * Semifinal: lost to

Daniel Bekker Daniel "Daan" Wepener Bekker (9 February 1932 – 22 October 2009) was a South African boxing, boxer, who won the bronze medal in the Heavyweight division (+ 91 kg) at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. Four years later in Ro ...

(South Africa) (was awarded a bronze medal)

References

1936 births 2020 deaths Heavyweight boxers Olympic boxers for the United Team of Germany Boxers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the United Team of Germany Olympic medalists in boxing German male boxers People from Kostrzyn nad Odrą Sportspeople from Lubusz Voivodeship Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics {{Germany-Olympic-medalist-stub