František Poláček (20 January 1940 – 11 November 2017) was a Czechoslovak

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. He competed in the men's light heavyweight event at the

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. In the course of

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in 1968, Poláček emigrated to

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, where he lived until his death in November 2017.

References

1940 births 2017 deaths Czech male boxers Czechoslovak male boxers Olympic boxers for Czechoslovakia Boxers at the 1964 Summer Olympics Czechoslovak emigrants to Germany Place of birth missing Light-heavyweight boxers Boxers from Brno {{CzechRepublic-boxing-bio-stub