Fernando Atzori
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Fernando Atzori. As of June 2005, the main communes by population are:-Politics:-External...
) is a former professional boxer, and olympic boxing
Boxing at the Summer Olympics
Boxing has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since its introduction to the program at the 1904 Summer Olympics, except for the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, because Swedish law banned the sport at the time. The 2008 Summer Olympics was the final games with boxing as a male only event...
gold medalist from Italy
Italy
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Amateur career
Atzori had an outstanding amateur career. In 1963 and 1964 he was the Italian FlyweightFlyweight
Flyweight is a class in boxing which includes fighters weighing less than 112 lb but above 108 lb .-Professional boxing:...
Champion, and in 1964 he was the Olympic
1964 Summer Olympics
The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan in 1964. Tokyo had been awarded with the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honor was subsequently passed to Helsinki because of Japan's...
Flyweight Champion. His overall Amateur record in 43 bouts was 37 wins, 3 losses, 3 draws.
Olympic results
- Defeated Mahmoud Mersal (United Arab Republic/Egypt) 5-0
- Defeated Darryl Norwood (Australia) 5-0
- Defeated John McCaffertyJohn McCaffertyJohn McCafferty is a British scientist, one of the founders of Cambridge Antibody Technology, well known as one of the inventors of scFv antibody fragment phage display, a technology that revolutionised the monoclonal antibody drug discovery...
(Ireland) 5-0 - Defeated Bob Carmody (United States) 4-1
- Defeated Artur OlechArtur OlechArtur Olech was a Polish boxer. He was born in Lviv, Ukraine and died in Wroclaw, Poland.Olech won two silver medals at the Olympic Games, in 1964 in Tokyo and 1968 in Mexico City.-References:**...
(Poland) 4-1