Nicolae Linca (1 January
1929
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– 27 June
2008
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) was a
Romania
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n amateur
welterweight
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boxer Boxer most commonly refers to:
* Boxer (boxing), a competitor in the sport of boxing
*Boxer (dog), a breed of dog
Boxer or boxers may also refer to:
Animal kingdom
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. After winning bronze medals at the 1953 and 1955 European championships, he became Romania's first Olympic champion in boxing at the
1956 Summer Olympics
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. Fighting with a broken finger, he won against
Fred Tiedt
Frederick Tiedt (16 October 1935 – 15 June 1999, born in Dublin, Ireland) was an amateur and professional boxer.
Amateur career
Tiedt won a silver medal for Ireland at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia in the welterweight ...
in a 3:2 split decision. Today, he remains the only Romanian boxer to win gold at the Olympics. His amateur record upon retirement was 281-25. After competing as an amateur, Linca turned to coaching in the sport.
[ By the 1990s he was living in poverty and suffering from ]Parkinson's
Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system. The symptoms usually emerge slowly, and as the disease worsens, non-motor symptoms becom ...
and Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegeneration, neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens. It is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia. The most common early symptom is difficulty in short-term me ...
s, which led to his deaths at the age of 79.[ In 2005 he was awarded the Sports Merit Order of First Class.]
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1949 Romanian National Championships
1929 births
2008 deaths
Olympic boxers for Romania
Olympic gold medalists for Romania
Boxers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
People from Blaj
Boxers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in boxing
Romanian male boxers
Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Welterweight boxers
Sportspeople from Alba County
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