Romualdas Murauskas

Romualdas Murauskas ( born October 2, 1934 in Kaunas, † May 23, 1979 ) was a Soviet boxer Lithuanian origin. He was winner of a bronze medal at the 1956 Olympics in the light heavyweight division.

Career

Romualdas Murauskas grew up in Lithuania and began as a teenager with the boxes. He became a member of the sports club Zalgiris Kaunas. He was one of many boxers from the Baltic states, which were in the 1950s in the Soviet national team, box.

His first test on the international stage, he was the 1955 USSR countries fighting against Finland B in Moscow where he. Above Reino Torkkeli by techn KO won in the first round. He sat down in the same year in the Soviet qualification for the European Championships in Berlin by. He started there in the light heavyweight division (then to 81 kg body weight) and was victorious in his first fight over Borislav Andreev from Bulgaria through techn. KO in the 2nd round. In the quarterfinals, he met the defending champions Ulli Nitzschke from Halle, he lost to on points. He therefore did not win any medal and ended up with three other boxers on the 5th of this European Championship.

The World Festival of Youth in Warsaw in 1955 Romualdas Murauskas the semi-finals where he was defeated by the Romanians Petre Zaharia on points. Even with the taking place in the late fall of 1955 Soviet championships he succeeded no title. He came up behind Vitaly Yegorov Yuri Belyayev and on the third place.

In 1956, then Romualdas Murauskas succeeded at the same time regarded as qualifying for the Olympic Games in Melbourne Soviet Championships of great success. He was on a tight point victory ( Judges 3:2 votes) over A. Chotentschik Soviet masters. In Melbourne he won in the quarterfinals over the Australians Anthony Madigan on points and lost the semifinal to the later Olympic gold medalist James Boyd from the U.S. also on points. He retired from it, but he won by reaching the semi-finals an Olympic bronze medal.

1957 Romualdas Murauskas was at the Soviet Championship not at the start, but was nominated by the Soviet Union won the European Championships in Prague. There he was defeated in the second round controversial ( 3-2 judges votes) against the Poles Andrzej Woichiechowski and had to settle for 9th place.

In 1958, he did not appear, but was back at the start at the Soviet Championship in 1959. He reached there in third place in the light heavyweight division. He achieved the same result even in the Soviet Championship in 1960 at light heavyweight, where he lost in the semifinals against Askold Lasota on points. For international operations did not come Romualdas Murauskas after his early exit at the European Championships in 1957, however.

Countries fighting Romualdas Murauskas

USSR championships with Romualdas Murauskas

Swell

• Trade journal Box Sport from 1955 to 1960
• BOX- ALMANAC 1920-1980, Editor German amateur boxing association eV, 1980
• Website " www.amateur - boxing.strefa.pl "
• Website " www.databaseolympics.com "