Victor Zilberman (born 20 September 1947) is a retired boxer from
Romania
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. He competed in three consecutive
Summer Olympics, starting in 1968 (
Mexico City
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). He also won 8 national senior titles and two silver medals at the
European Amateur Boxing Championships
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.
Born in
Bucharest
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, Zilberman had his best result at the
1976 Summer Olympics
Events January
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* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
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in
Montreal
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. There he won a
bronze medal in the
welterweight
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division (– 67 kg) after being defeated in the semifinals by eventual winner
Jochen Bachfeld of
East Germany
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. After the competition, he defected to Canada.
Zilberman is Jewish.
Olympic results
1968: Mexico City (as a welterweight)
*Lost to
Joseph Bessala (Cameroon) TKO 3 (quarterfinal match)
1972: Munich (as a welterweight)
* Round of 64: Lost to
David Jackson (Uganda) by decision, 2–3
Montreal: 1976 (as a welterweight)
* Round of 64: bye
* Round of 32: Defeated
Amon Kotey (Ghana) by walkover
* Round of 16: Defeated
Colin Jones (Great Britain) by decision, 5–0
* Quarterfinal: Defeated
Carlos Santos (Puerto Rico) by decision, 3–2
* Semifinal: Lost to
Jochen Bachfeld (East Germany) by decision, 2-3 (won bronze medal)
References
databaseOlympics
External links
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1947 births
Sportspeople from Bucharest
Boxers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Living people
Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers of Romania
Olympic bronze medalists for Romania
Romanian defectors
Romanian male boxers
Romanian emigrants to Canada
Welterweight boxers
Jewish Romanian sportspeople
Jewish boxers
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