Tadija Kačar
Tadija Kačar (born 5 January 1956 in Peručica, near Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a retired Bosnian Serb boxer who represented Yugoslavia at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal, Canada. There he won the silver medal in the light middleweight division (– 71 kg), after being defeated in the final by Poland's Jerzy Rybicki. Winner of the silver medal at the European Championship 1979th Cologne, Winner at the Mediterranean Games 1979th Split. Tadija Kačar captured the silver medal at the second World Championships in Belgrade. He is the older brother of boxer Slobodan Kačar, who won a gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad () and officially branded as Moscow 1980 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union, in present-day Russ .... Olympic results ** Defeated Poul Frandsen (Denmark), 5:0 ** Defeated Mohammad Azarhazin ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Boxing
Boxing is a combat sport and martial art. Taking place in a boxing ring, it involves two people – usually wearing protective equipment, such as boxing glove, protective gloves, hand wraps, and mouthguards – throwing Punch (combat), punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time. Although the term "boxing" is commonly attributed to western boxing, in which only fists are involved, it has developed in different ways in different geographical areas and cultures of the World. In global terms, "boxing" today is also a set of combat sports focused on Strike (attack), striking, in which two opponents face each other in a fight using at least their fists, and possibly involving other actions, such as kicks, Elbow (strike), elbow strikes, Knee (strike), knee strikes, and headbutts, depending on the rules. Some of these variants are the bare-knuckle boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, Lethwei, savate, and Sanda (sport), sanda. Boxing techniques have been incorporated into many ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Light Middleweight
Light middleweight, also known as junior middleweight or super welterweight,PeBoxRec/ref> is a weight class in boxing but also may include other combat sports. Boxing The light middleweight division (also known as junior middleweight in the International Boxing Federation, IBF or super welterweight in the World Boxing Association, WBA and World Boxing Council, WBC), is a weight division in professional boxing, above 66.7 kg and up to 69.9 kg (147+ to 154 pounds). History This division was established in 1961, when the Austrian Board of Control recognized a fight between Emile Griffith and Teddy Wright for the "world" championship. The fight, which took place on October 17, was won by Griffith via a 15-round decision. Three days later, the World Boxing Association championship was created when Denny Moyer outpointed Joey Giambra. The World Boxing Council recognized the WBA champion as the true division champion until 1975, when it stripped their current champion and sanctioned a fig ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bosnia And Herzegovina Male Boxers
Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, it borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to the north and southwest, with a coast on the Adriatic Sea in the south. Bosnia (region), Bosnia has a moderate continental climate with hot summers and cold, snowy winters. Its geography is largely mountainous, particularly in the central and eastern regions, which are dominated by the Dinaric Alps. Herzegovina, the smaller, southern region, has a Mediterranean climate and is mostly mountainous. Sarajevo is the capital and the largest city. The area has been inhabited since at least the Upper Paleolithic, with permanent human settlement traced to the Neolithic cultures of Butmir culture, Butmir, Kakanj culture, Kakanj, and Vučedol culture, Vučedol. After the arrival of the first Proto-Indo-Europeans, Indo-Europeans, the area was populated ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sportspeople From Central Bosnia Canton
An athlete is most commonly a person who competes in one or more sports involving physical strength, speed, power, or endurance. Sometimes, the word "athlete" is used to refer specifically to sport of athletics competitors, i.e. including track and field and marathon runners but excluding e.g. swimmers, footballers or basketball players. However, in other contexts (mainly in the United States) it is used to refer to all athletics (physical culture) participants of any sport. For the latter definition, the word sportsperson or the gendered sportsman or sportswoman are also used. A third definition is also sometimes used, meaning anyone who is physically fit regardless of whether they compete in a sport. Athletes may be professionals or amateurs. Most professional athletes have particularly well-developed physiques obtained by extensive physical training and strict exercise, accompanied by a strict dietary regimen. Definitions The word "athlete" is a romanization of the , ''at ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Living People
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1956 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are killed for trespassing by the Waorani people of Ecuador, shortly after making contact with them. * January 16 – Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser vows to reconquer Palestine (region), Palestine. * January 25–January 26, 26 – Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala, after Soviet Union, Soviet troops vacate its military base. Civilians can return February 4. * January 26 – The 1956 Winter Olympics open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. February * February 2 – Austria and Israel establish diplomatic Austria–Israel relations, relations. * February 11 – British Espionage, spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean (spy), Donald Maclean resurface in the Soviet Union, after being missing for 5 years. * ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rolando Garbey
Rolando Garbey Garbey (19 November 1947 – 16 December 2023) was a Cuban boxer. He competed in the Light Middleweight (71 kg) category. He won an Olympic silver medal in 1968 and a bronze medal in 1976. In 1974, at the inaugural 1974 World Championships in Havana, Cuba, he won the world title. Garbey was also a gold medalist at light middleweight at the Pan-American games in 1967, 1971, and 1975. Garbey died from a cardiac arrest in Havana, on 16 December 2023, at the age of 76. Olympic results Mexico City - 1968 *Quarterfinal: Defeated Eric Blake (Great Britain) by first-round knockout *Semifinal: Defeated Johnny Baldwin (United States) by decision, 4-1 *Final: Lost to Boris Lagutin (Soviet Union) by decision, 0-5 (was awarded silver medal) Munich - 1972 *Defeated Ricky Barnor (Ghana) by decision, 5-0 *Defeated Franz Csandl (Austria) by decision, 5-0 *Defeated Jae Keun-Lim (South Korea) by second-round technical knockout *Lost to Wiesław Rudkowski (Poland) by dec ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vasile Didea
Vasile Didea (born 1 April 1954) is a Romanian boxer. He competed in the men's light middleweight event at the 1976 Summer Olympics. At the 1976 Summer Olympics, he defeated Michael Prevost and Nayden Stanchev, before losing to Tadija Kačar Tadija Kačar (born 5 January 1956 in Peručica, near Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a retired Bosnian Serb boxer who represented Yugoslavia at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal, Canada. There he won the silver medal in the light middle .... References 1954 births Living people Romanian male boxers Olympic boxers for Romania Boxers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Caraș-Severin County Light-middleweight boxers 20th-century Romanian sportsmen {{Romania-boxing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mohammad Azarhazin
Mohammad Azarhazin (Persian: محمد آذر حزین, born January 8, 1951) is a retired Iranian amateur boxer who won a gold medal at the 1977 Asian Championships. He competed at the 1976 Olympics and was eliminated in the second bout. References 1951 births Living people Boxers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for Iran Iranian male boxers Light-middleweight boxers 20th-century Iranian sportsmen Place of birth missing (living people) Iranian martial artists {{Iran-boxing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Poul Frandsen
Poul Frandsen (born 17 August 1953) is a Danish boxer. He competed in the men's light middleweight event at the 1976 Summer Olympics The 1976 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Montreal 1976 (), were an international multi-sport event held from July 17 to August 1, 1976, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Montreal .... References 1953 births Living people Danish male boxers Olympic boxers for Denmark Boxers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Frederiksberg Martial artists from the Capital Region of Denmark Light-middleweight boxers 20th-century Danish sportsmen {{Denmark-boxing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad () and officially branded as Moscow 1980 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union, in present-day Russia. The games were the first to be staged in an Eastern Bloc country, as well as the first Olympic Games and only Summer Olympics to be held in a Slavic languages, Slavic language-speaking country. They were also the only Summer Olympic Games to be held in a self-proclaimed communist country until the 2008 Summer Olympics held in China. These were the final Olympic Games under the International Olympic Committee, IOC Presidency of Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin before he was succeeded by Juan Antonio Samaranch shortly afterward. Eighty nations were represented at the Moscow Games, the smallest number since 1956 Summer Olympics, 1956. Led by the United States, 66 countries 1980 Summer Olympics boycott, boycotted the games entirely, beca ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Slobodan Kačar
Slobodan Kačar ( sr-Cyrl, Слободан Качар; born 15 September 1957) is a retired Serbian boxer who was the IBF Light-Heavyweight world champion. He won the Light Heavyweight Gold medal for Yugoslavia at the 1980 Summer Olympics. In the same year, Kačar was named as the best athlete of Yugoslavia. Amateur career *Compiled a reported record of 241–9 *Bronze Medal (Middleweight) at the 1978 World Championships in Belgrade *Gold Medal (Light Heavyweight) representing Yugoslavia at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow **Defeated Michael Nassoro (Tanzania) KO 2 **Defeated David Kvachadze (Soviet Union) points **Defeated Herbert Bauch (East Germany) TKO 2 **Defeated Paweł Skrzecz (Poland) points (4–1) Professional career Kačar turned professional in 1983 and won his first 21 fights, including a victory over Eddie Mustafa Muhammad to capture the vacant IBF Light Heavyweight Title. Kačar lost his next fight, a defense against Bobby Czyz in 1986, via 5th-round TKO. Kač ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |