Detlef Kästner

Detlef Kästner

Detlef Kästner battling Cuba's Armando Martínez (right)
Personal information
Full name	Detlef Kästner
Nationality	East Germany
Born	March 20, 1958 (1958-03-20) (age 53) Wurzen, Saxony
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	71 kilograms (160 lb)
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Rated at	Light Middleweight
Club	SC Dynamo Berlin, Berlin
Medal record Olympic Games Bronze 1980 Moscow Light Middleweight

Detlef Kästner (born March 20, 1958) is a retired boxer, who represented East Germany at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. There he won the bronze medal in the light middleweight division (– 71 kg), after being defeated in the semifinals by eventual silver medalist Aleksandr Koshkyn of the USSR.

Olympic results

• 1st round bye
• Defeated Adeoye Adetunji (Nigeria) KO 3
• Defeated Leonidas Njunwa (Tanzania) 5-0
• Lost to Aleksandr Koshkyn (Soviet Union) 0-

References

• sports-reference

Persondata
Name	Kastner, Detlef
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Date of birth	March 20, 1958
Place of birth	Wurzen, Saxony
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