Damir Škaro

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Medal record
Competitor for Flag of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia
Men’s Boxing
Olympic Games
Bronze 1988 Seoul Light Heavyweight

Damir Škaro is a former Croatian amateur boxer, who won the Light Heavyweight Bronze medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympic games with Yugoslavia.

After it became known to him that the Olympic Committee of Serbia was claiming his medal as its own, he had this to say, "My medals, along with all other medals of Croatian athletes, are as much theirs as is Kosovo. They were the most numerous, privileged people in that artificial creation [Yugoslavia] so now they think that everything in history belongs to them."[1]

[edit] 1988 Olympic Results

  • Defeated Deyan Kirilov (Bulgaria) 3-2
  • Defeated Osmond Imadiyi (Nigeria) 5-0
  • Defeated Joseph Akhasamba (Kenya) 5-0
  • Lost to Nuramgomed Shanavazov (Soviet Union) walk-over

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