Victor Zilberman

Victor Zilberman ( born September 20, 1947 in Bucharest ) is a former Romanian boxer Jewish faith. Zilberman was a participant of the Olympic Games in 1968 and 1972 and bronze medalist of the Olympic Games 1976. Additionally, he won two silver medals at the European Championships in 1969 and 1975

Career

Zilberman won in his time Junior ( U19), the silver medal in the light welterweight ( -63.5 kg ) at the Junior Championships of the Soviet bloc, the so-called the Olympic tournament hopes in Berlin. From 1968 to 1975 he was consistently Romanian welterweight champion ( -67 kg ).

Zilberman was very muscular for his weight class and had a hard blow; However, he was also considered a workout lazy.

In 1968 Zilberman at the Olympic Games in Mexico City in part, but dropped out after victories over Jørgen Hansen, Denmark ( TKO 3 ), and Istvan Gali, Hungary (5-0 ) in the quarterfinals to eventual silver medalist Joseph Bessala, Cameroon ( TKO 3 ), from. The following year he won the silver medal at the Balkan Championships in Galaţi and finished well at the European Championships in second place. He struck in, inter alia, in the quarterfinals Manfred cloud, DDR, and lost the final of the German Günther Meier.

At the European Championships in 1971 Zilberman already retired in the quarterfinals to eventual gold medalist Kajdi János, Hungary, and also at the 1972 Olympics he had to in the first battle of David Jackson, give Uganda ( 3-2 ), beaten. After the Olympics, Zilberman has been banned by the Central Bureau of the Communist Party of Romania because of indeterminate lapses during games for six months for international tournaments, so he missed the European Championships in 1973.

Zilberman 1975 won for the second time a silver medal at the European Championships. In the final he lost to Finn Kalevi Marjamaa (5-0 ). The following year he took part in the Olympic Games in Montreal and was able to celebrate the biggest success of his career. After victories over Amon Kotey, Ghana ( where), Colin Jones, Wales (5:0), and the later professional world champion of the IBF light middleweight Carlos Santos, Puerto Rico ( 3:2 ), he lost in the semifinals to eventual Olympic champion Jochen Bachfeld, DDR (3:2), and thus won the Olympic bronze medal.

After this success, Zilberman left the Olympic village and sought political asylum in Canada.

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1969 European Amateur Boxing Championships 1975 European Amateur Boxing Championships Manfred Wolke East Germany 1971 European Amateur Boxing Championships 1973 European Amateur Boxing Championships Finland Walkover
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