Dieter Wemhöner (born 18 August 1930) is a former

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who won a gold medal at the

1953 European Amateur Boxing Championships The 1953 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Warsaw, Poland from May 17 to May 24. The tenth edition of the bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA. There were 117 fighters from ...

. He represented West Germany in the

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, reaching the third round; and the

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at the

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, reaching the second round. Wemhöner is married and has two sons, Thilo (born 1959) and Jens (born 1961).Dieter Wemhöner
Internationales Sportarchiv 47/1995 (13 November 1995)

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* 1930 births Living people Boxers from Berlin Olympic boxers for Germany Olympic boxers for the United Team of Germany Boxers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Middleweight boxers German male boxers 20th-century German sportsmen {{Germany-boxing-bio-stub