Jürgen Fanghänel Explained

Jürgen Fanghänel
Fullname:Jürgen Fanghänel
Weight Class:Heavyweight
Club:Sportclub Karl-Marx-Stadt
Sport Gemeinschaft Wismut Gera
Birth Date:1951 8, df=yes
Birth Place:Limbach-Oberfrohna, East Germany
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Jürgen Fanghänel (born 1 August 1951) is a retired East German amateur boxer, who competed in 1970s and 1980s.

Career

Fanghänel won the bronze medal in the men's heavyweight division (91 kg) at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. There he was defeated in the semifinals by Pyotr Zayev of the Soviet Union. Two years earlier he also captured the bronze medal, at the second World Championships in Belgrade. In 1982 he ended up second at the World Championships in Munich, West Germany.

Olympic results

1972 – Munich

1976 – Montreal

1980 – Moscow

References