Ján Zachara

Ján Zachara ( born August 27, 1928 in Kubrá in Trenčín ) is a former Slovak boxer. He was Olympic champion for Czechoslovakia in Helsinki in 1952 at featherweight.

Career

Ján Zachara began as a teenager in Trenčín with the boxes. Immediately after the war, he advanced to the former class of Czechoslovak boxer. In 1946 he started for the first time in the Czechoslovak national flyweight who battled a four-country battle with Poland, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union in Prague. Ján Zachara cashed against the Polish and Yugoslav starter and punched draw against the Soviet athletes Lew Segalowitsch. Also in 1947 he played a few countries fighting for Czechoslovakia. 1947 and 1948 he was Czechoslovak champion bantamweight or featherweight.

At the 1948 Olympic Games in London Ján Zachara did not participate. Whether he was at the start of the European Championships 1947 in Dublin, in 1949 in Oslo, 1951 in Milan and in 1953 in Warsaw, and if so, how he cut off then, can not be determined on the basis of the currently still lack of source material. But he did not win any medals at these championships.

The greatest success in the career of Ján Zachara was the Olympic gold medal at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki. In featherweight he defeated there Åke Wärnström from Sweden and Su Bung- Nan from South Korea each with 3-0 judges' votes on points. Counter János Erdei from Hungary, Leonard Leisching from South Africa and in the battle for the gold medal against Sergio Caprari from Italy he won 2-1 judges votes.

In 1955, Ján Zachara at the European Championships in Berlin (West). In featherweight he met while in the second round to Thomas Nicholls of England and lost that fight on points. Also at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, he was there again. He won there featherweight in the second round against Dong Hun -Chung from South Korea on points, but lost in the quarterfinals against the Olympic champion from 1952 Bantamweight Pentti Hämäläinen from Finland on points and retired.

Ján Zachara has finished his boxers career in 1958. In this year he was in Czechoslovakia the title " Honored Master of Sport" and he was awarded the title " Honored Trainer" in 1972.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, EM = European champion, Fl = flyweight, bantamweight = Ba, Fe = Featherweight, Lightweight = Le, then until 51 kg, 54 kg, 57 kg and 60 kg body weight)

Countries fighting

(if known)