Mircea Dobrescu (5 September 1930 – 6 August 2015) was a flyweight boxer from Romania. He competed at the 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympics and won a silver medal in 1956, losing to

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on points.Mircea Dobrescu
sports-reference.com He won two more silver medals at the European championships in 1955 and 1957. Dobrescu took up boxing in 1948 and retired in 1982 after winning six national flyweight titles, the one from 1953 against his brother Constantin. He inherited

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from his mother, which resulted in blindness during his last years.

1956 Olympic results

Below are Mircea Dobrescu's results from the flyweight division at the 1956 Olympic boxing tournament in Melbourne: * Round of 16: defeated Federico Bonus (Philippines) on points * Quarterfinal: defeated Ray Perez (USA) on points * Semifinal: defeated John Caldwell (Ireland) on points * Final: lost to

(Great Britain) on points (was awarded silver medal)

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1952 Romanian National Championships
1930 births 2015 deaths Flyweight boxers Boxers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers of Romania Olympic silver medalists for Romania Olympic medalists in boxing Romanian male boxers Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics {{Romania-boxing-bio-stub