Pedro van Raamsdonk

Pedro Johannes van Raamsdonk (born October 2, 1960 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland) is a retired boxer from the Netherlands, who competed for his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. There he was stopped in the quarterfinals of the middleweight division (– 75 kg) by eventual bronze medalist Aristides González of Puerto Rico.

In 1981 he won, the first Dutchman to do so since World War II, the silver medal in his weight division at the European Amateur Boxing Championships in Tampere, Finland. A year later he captured the bronze medal at the World Amateur Boxing Championships in Munich, West Germany.He is the first and so far the only boxer without an American passport (he is from the Netherlands) who fought in the National Golden Gloves. He won in 1980 the Californiën Golden Gloves and the bronze medal at the 1981 national Golden Gloves in Toledo (Ohio)

External links

* [http://www.sport.nl/overige/deelnemersfinder/ Dutch Olympic Committee]