- Danas Pozniakas
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Medal record Men’s Boxing Competitor for the 
Soviet UnionOlympic Games Gold 1968 Mexico City Light Heavyweight European Amateur Championships Silver 1963 Moscow Light Heavyweight Gold 1965 Berlin Light Heavyweight Gold 1967 Rome Light Heavyweight Gold 1969 Bucharest Light Heavyweight Danas Pozniakas (October 19, 1939 – February 4, 2005) was a Lithuanian boxer who competed for the Soviet Union.
He was born near Białystok and died in Vilnius.
In 1968 he won the Olympic gold medal in the light heavyweight class.
His family moved to Vilnius in the 1950s. From 1959 to 1966 he trained at the Armed Forces sports society, and from 1968 to 1969 for Trudovye Rezervy sports society in Vilnius. He became the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1965 and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour in 1969.[1] During his career Pozniakas won 203 fights out of 217. Since 1974 he was an AIBA International Referee.[2]
Olympic results
1968
- Quarterfinals - Jürgen Schlegel (East Germany) 5-0
- Semifinals - Georgi Stankov (Bulgaria) 5-0
- Final - Ion Monea (Romania) walk-over
References
- ^ Boris Khavin (1979) (in Russian). All about Olympic Games. (2nd ed. ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. pp. p. 572.
- ^ (Russian) Profile in the Olympic Encyclopedia
External links
Olympic Boxing Champions in Men's Light Heavyweight 1920-1936: 160-175 lb (72.6-79.4 kg), 1948: 73-80 kg 1952-2008: 75-81 kg 1920: Eddie Eagan (USA) • 1924: Harry Mitchell (GBR) • 1928: Víctor Avendaño (ARG) • 1932: David Carstens (RSA) • 1936: Roger Michelot (FRA) • 1948: George Hunter (RSA) • 1952: Norvel Lee (USA) • 1956: James Boyd (USA) • 1960: Cassius Clay (USA) • 1964: Cosimo Pinto (ITA) • 1968: Danas Pozniakas (URS) • 1972: Mate Parlov (YUG) • 1976: Leon Spinks (USA) • 1980: Slobodan Kačar (YUG) • 1984: Anton Josipović (YUG) • 1988: Andrew Maynard (USA) • 1992: Torsten May (GER) • 1996: Vassiliy Jirov (KAZ) • 2000: Aleksandr Lebziak (RUS) • 2004: Andre Ward (USA) • 2008: Zhang Xiaoping (CHN)
Categories:- 1939 births
- 2005 deaths
- Lithuanian boxers
- Soviet boxers
- Armed Forces sports society athletes
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Light-heavyweight boxers
- Olympic boxers of the Soviet Union
- Boxers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Soviet Olympic medalist stubs
- Lithuanian sportspeople stubs
- European boxing biography stubs
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