Sergio Caprari (12 July 1932 – 12 October 2015) was an Italian
boxer who won the silver medal in the
featherweight
Featherweight is a weight class in the combat sports of boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts, and Greco-Roman wrestling.
Boxing
Professional boxing
History
A featherweight boxer weighs in at a limit of . In the early days of the division, this ...
division at the
1952 Summer Olympics in
Helsinki
Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...
.
Caprari was born in
Civitacastellana in 1932. He died in 2015.
Olympic results
Below are the results of Sergio Caprari, an Italian featherweight boxer who competed at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics:
*Round of 32: bye
*Round of 16: Defeated
Pentti Niinivuori
Pentti Niinivuori (27 August 1931 – 5 July 1988) was a Finnish boxer. He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics and the 1956 Summer Olympics. At the 1952 Summer Olympics, he lost to Sergio Caprari
Sergio Caprari (12 July 1932 – 12 ...
(Finland) by decision, 2–1
*Quarterfinal: Defeated
Leszek Drogosz
Leszek Melchior Drogosz (6 January 1933 – 7 September 2012) was a Polish boxer and actor.
Drogosz was born in Kielce. He thrice won the gold medal at the European Amateur Boxing Championships in the Light welterweight division ...
(Poland) by decision, 3–0
*Semifinal: Defeated
Joseph Ventaja
Joseph Ventaja (4 February 1930 – 11 August 2003) was a French boxer who won the bronze medal in the featherweight division at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He was born in Casablanca, Morocco
Casablanca, also known in Ara ...
(France) by decision, 2–1
*Final: Lost to
Ján Zachara
Ján Zachara (; born 27 August 1928) is a former Czechoslovak boxer who won the gold medal in the featherweight division at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Zachara also competed in 1956, losing in a quarterfinal to Pentti Hämäläinen ...
(Czechoslovakia) by decision, 1–2 (was awarded silver medal)
References
External links
Olympic DB*
1932 births
Featherweight boxers
Boxers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers of Italy
Olympic silver medalists for Italy
2015 deaths
Olympic medalists in boxing
Italian male boxers
Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
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