- David Torosyan
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David Torosyan Personal information Born September 23, 1950 Medal recordMen's Boxing Competitor for the Soviet Union Olympic Games Bronze 1976 Montreal Flyweight World Amateur Championships Bronze 1974 Havana Bantamweight David Torosyan (born September 23, 1950) is a retired boxer of Armenian descent, who represented the USSR at the Summer Olympics at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. There he won the bronze medal in the flyweight division (– 54 kg), after being defeated in a controversial decision in the semifinals by Cuba's Ramón Duvalón. He also captured the bronze medal at the inaugural 1974 World Championships in Havana, Cuba. Torosyan trained at Trudovye Rezervy in Yerevan.
Olympic results
- 1st round bye
- Defeated Hassen Sheriff (Ethiopia) walk-over, country boycotted over New Zealand
- Defeated Giovanni Camputaro (Italy) RSC 2
- Defeated Ung Jo-Jong (North Korea) 5-0
- Lost to Ramón Duvalón (Cuba) DQ 2
References
Categories:- 1950 births
- Living people
- Armenian boxers
- Soviet boxers
- Flyweight boxers
- Boxers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers of the Soviet Union
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Armenian sportspeople stubs
- European boxing biography stubs
- Soviet Olympic medalist stubs
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