Tadija Kačar is a retired Bosnian Serb boxer

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

 who represented Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....

 at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Boxing at the 1976 Summer Olympics

There were eleven boxing events at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.-Light Flyweight :-First Round:* Armando Guevara def. Eduardo Baltar , 5:0* Li Byong-Uk def. Sidney McKnight , KO-1...

 in Montréal, Canada. There he won the silver medal in the light middleweight

Light middleweight

Light Middleweight , is a weight division in professional boxing, above 147 pounds and up to 154 pounds ....

 division (– 71 kg), after being defeated in the final by Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

's Jerzy Rybicki

Jerzy Rybicki

Jerzy Rybicki is a retired boxer from Poland, who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal, Canada...

. Winner of the silver medal at the European Championship 1979th Cologne, Winner at the Mediterranean Games 1979th Split.

Tadija Kačar captured the silver medal at the second World Championships

1978 World Amateur Boxing Championships

The Men's 1978 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from May 6 to 20. The second edition of this competition, held two years before the Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union was organised by the world governing body for amateur boxing AIBA.- Medal winners...

 in Belgrade

Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

. He is the older brother of boxer Slobodan Kačar

Slobodan Kacar

Slobodan Kačar is a retired Bosnian Serb boxer, born in Perućica near Jajce in Bosnia and Herzegovina, then SFR Yugoslavia. He won the Light Heavyweight Gold medal for Yugoslavia at the 1980 Summer Olympics. In the same year, Kačar was named as the best athlete of Yugoslavia...

, who won a gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics

1980 Summer Olympics

The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Moscow in the Soviet Union. In addition, the yachting events were held in Tallinn, and some of the preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football tournament...

.

Olympic results

• • Defeated Poul Frandsen (Denmark), 5:0
  • Defeated Mohamed Azarhazin (Iran), 5:0
  • Defeated Vasile Didea (Romania), 5:0
  • Defeated Rolando Garbey
    Rolando Garbey
    Rolando Garbey Garbey is a Cuban boxer. He competed in the Light Middleweight category. He won an Olympic silver medal in 1968 and a bronze medal in 1976. In 1974, at the inaugural 1974 World Championships in Havana, Cuba, he won the world title...
    
     (Cuba), 4:1
  • Lost to Jerzy Rybicki
    Jerzy Rybicki
    Jerzy Rybicki is a retired boxer from Poland, who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal, Canada...
    
    (Poland), 5:0