Mircea Dobrescu

Mircea Dobrescu (5 September 1930 – 6 August 2015) was a flyweight boxer from Romania. He competed at the 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympics and won a silver medal in 1956, losing to Terence Spinks on points.[2] He won two more silver medals at the European championships in 1955 and 1957.

Mircea Dobrescu
Personal information
Born5 September 1930
Cotorca, Buzău, Romania
Died6 August 2015 (aged 84)
Height150 cm (4 ft 11 in)
Weight51 kg (112 lb)
Sport
SportBoxing
ClubSteaua București
Coached byConstantin Nour[1]
Medal record
Representing  Romania
Romania National Amateur Boxing Championships
1952 Bucharest -51 kg
1953 Galați, Brașov and Bucharest -51 kg
1955 Bucharest -51 kg
1957 Bucharest -51 kg
1959 Bucharest -51 kg
1960 Bucharest -51 kg
1961 Bucharest -51 kg
Olympic Games
1956 Melbourne -51 kg
European Amateur Boxing Championships
1955 West Berlin-51 kg
1957 Prague-51 kg

Dobrescu took up boxing in 1948 and retired in 1982 after winning six national flyweight titles, the one from 1953 against his brother Constantin.[3] He inherited glaucoma from his mother, which resulted in blindness during his last years.[1]

1956 Olympic results

Below are Mircea Dobrescu's results from the flyweight division at the 1956 Olympic boxing tournament in Melbourne:

References

  1. "Hercule de buzunar" (in Romanian). Retrieved 5 April 2014.
  2. Mircea Dobrescu. sports-reference.com
  3. "1953 Romanian National Championships". Amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved 21 January 2021.


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