Reima Valdemar Virtanen (born 5 November 1947 in

Kemi Kemi (; sme, Giepma ; smn, Kiemâ; sms, Ǩeeʹmm; Swedish (historically): ''Kiemi'') is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located very near the city of Tornio and the Swedish border. The distance to Oulu is to the south and to Rovani ...

Finnish Lapland Lapland ( fi, Lappi ; se, Lappi; smn, Laapi; sv, Lappland; la, Lapponia, links=no) is the largest and northernmost region of Finland. The 21 municipalities in the region cooperate in a Regional Council. Lapland borders the region of North O ...

) is a former

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from

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

, who won the silver medal in the

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division (– 75 kg) at the

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. He was nicknamed "Kila" and "Rema" during his career. In the final Virtanen was knocked out in 2:17 of the first round by Vyacheslav Lemechev of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

Olympic results

*1st round bye *Defeated Titus Simba (Tanzania) 3-2 *Defeated Witold Stachurski (Poland) TKO 3 *Defeated

Prince Amartey Prince Amartey (25 June 1944 – 23 September 2022) was a Ghanaian boxer, who won the bronze medal in the middleweight division (– 75 kg) at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He shared the podium with USA's Marvin Johnson. Previou ...

(Ghana) 3-2 *Lost to

Vyacheslav Lemeshev Vyacheslav Ivanovich Lemeshev (russian: Вячеслав Иванович Лемешев) (April 3, 1952 in Moscow — January 27, 1996) was an Olympic boxing, Olympic boxer from the Soviet Union, USSR. Soviet physiologists, while exa ...

(Soviet Union) KO by 1

References

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1947 births Living people People from Kemi Middleweight boxers Boxers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for Finland Olympic silver medalists for Finland Olympic medalists in boxing Finnish male boxers Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Lapland (Finland) {{Finland-Olympic-medalist-stub