Maurizio Stecca

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Men's Boxing
Olympic medal record
Gold	1984 Los Angeles	Bantamweight

Maurizio Stecca (born March 9, 1963 in Santarcangelo di Romagna) is an Italian former boxer, who won the Bantamweight Gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

His brother Loris Stecca was also a professional boxer.

[edit] Professional career

Stecca began his professional career in 1984 and compiled a career record of 49-4-0. He won the WBO Featherweight Title in 1991 and successfully defended it three times.

[edit] Amateur accomplishments

1979-1981 Italian Bantamweight Champion
1984 Olympic Bantamweight Gold Medalist. Results were:
- Defeated Philip Sutcliffe (Ireland) points
- Defeated Star Zulu (Zambia) points
- Defeated Robinson Tamara Pitalua (Colombia) points
- Defeated Pedro Nolasco (Dominican Republic) points
- Defeated Hector Lopez (boxer) (Mexico) points

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Boxing Record

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Olympic Boxing Champions (Bantamweight)

1904: Oliver Kirk (USA) • 1908: Henry Thomas (GBR) • 1920: Clarence Walker (RSA) • 1924: William Smith (RSA) • 1928: Vittorio Tamagnini (ITA) • 1932: Horace Gwynne (CAN) • 1936: Ulderico Sergo (ITA) • 1948: Tibor Csík (HUN) • 1952: Pentti Hämäläinen (FIN) • 1956: Wolfgang Behrendt (GER) • 1960: Oleg Grigoryev (URS) • 1964: Takao Sakurai (JPN) • 1968: Valerian Sokolov (URS) • 1972: Orlando Martínez (CUB) • 1976: Gu Yong-Ju (PRK) • 1980: Juan Hernández (CUB) • 1984: Maurizio Stecca (ITA) • 1988: Kennedy McKinney (USA) • 1992: Joel Casamayor (CUB) • 1996: István Kovács (HUN) • 2000: Guillermo Rigondeaux (CUB) • 2004: Guillermo Rigondeaux (CUB)