Detlef Kästner (born 20 March 1958) is a retired boxer, who represented

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at the 1980 Summer Olympics in

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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

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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 {{Germany-boxing-bio-stub