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ItalyOlympic Games Gold 1964 Tokyo Light Heavyweight Cosimo Pinto (born March 14, 1943) is an Italian former boxer, and an Olympic gold medalist.
Amateur career
Pinto won the Light heavyweight gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic games.
Olympic results
- 1st round bye
- Defeated Rudi Lubbers (Netherlands) 5-0
- Defeated Jurgen Schlegel (United Team of Germany) 4-1
- Defeated Alexander Nicolov (Bulgaria) RSC
- Defeated Alexey Kiseliov (Soviet Union) 3-2
References
Olympic Boxing Champions in Men's Light Heavyweight 1920-1936: 160-175 lb (72.6-79.4 kg), 1948: 73-80 kg 1952-2008: 75-81 kg 1920: Eddie Eagan (USA) • 1924: Harry Mitchell (GBR) • 1928: Víctor Avendaño (ARG) • 1932: David Carstens (RSA) • 1936: Roger Michelot (FRA) • 1948: George Hunter (RSA) • 1952: Norvel Lee (USA) • 1956: James Boyd (USA) • 1960: Cassius Clay (USA) • 1964: Cosimo Pinto (ITA) • 1968: Danas Pozniakas (URS) • 1972: Mate Parlov (YUG) • 1976: Leon Spinks (USA) • 1980: Slobodan Kačar (YUG) • 1984: Anton Josipović (YUG) • 1988: Andrew Maynard (USA) • 1992: Torsten May (GER) • 1996: Vassiliy Jirov (KAZ) • 2000: Aleksandr Lebziak (RUS) • 2004: Andre Ward (USA) • 2008: Zhang Xiaoping (CHN)
Categories:- 1943 births
- Italian boxers
- Light-heavyweight boxers
- Living people
- Olympic boxers of Italy
- Boxers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Italy
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Italian Olympic medalist stubs
- Italian boxing biography stubs
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