Josef Němec

Medal record

Josef Němec
Men's Boxing
Competitor for  Czechoslovakia
Olympic Games
Bronze 1960 Rome Heavyweight
European Championship
Bronze 1957 Prague Heavyweight
Bronze 1959 Lucerne Heavyweight
Gold 1963 Moscow Heavyweight
Josef Němec (born 25 September 1933 in České Budějovice, Czechoslovakia) is a boxer from Czechoslovakia.

He competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia, going out in the quarter finals of the heavyweight event. He returned to the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy, again as a heavyweight boxer where he went one better, going out in the semi final to finish in third place. In Moscow 1963 he became European champion.

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