Victor Zilberman

Victor Zilberman

Personal information
Nationality	Romanian
Born	(1947-09-20) 20 September 1947 Bucharest, Romania
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Medal record Representing Romania Romania National Amateur Boxing Championships 1968 Bucharest Welterweight 1969 Bucharest Welterweight 1970 Bucharest Welterweight 1971 Bucharest Welterweight 1972 Bucharest Welterweight 1973 Cluj Welterweight 1974 Bucharest Welterweight 1975 Bucharest Light middleweight Olympic Games 1976 Montreal Welterweight European Amateur Championships 1969 Bucharest Welterweight 1975 Katowice Welterweight

Victor Zilberman (born 20 September 1947) is a retired boxer from Romania. He competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1968 (Mexico City). He also won 8 national senior titles and two silver medals at the European Amateur Boxing Championships.

Born in Bucharest, Zilberman had his best result at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. There he won a bronze medal in the welterweight division (– 67 kg) after being defeated in the semifinals by eventual winner Jochen Bachfeld of East Germany. After the competition, he defected to Canada. Victor Zilberman is the father of David Zilberman who represented Canada in wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Zilberman is Jewish.

Olympic results

1968: Mexico City (as a welterweight)

• Lost to Joseph Bessala (Cameroon) TKO 3 (quarterfinal match)

1972: Munich (as a welterweight)

• Round of 64: Lost to David Jackson (Uganda) by decision, 2–3

Montreal: 1976 (as a welterweight)

• Round of 64: bye
• Round of 32: Defeated Amon Kotey (Ghana) by walkover
• Round of 16: Defeated Colin Jones (Great Britain) by decision, 5–0
• Quarterfinal: Defeated Carlos Santos (Puerto Rico) by decision, 3–2
• Semifinal: Lost to Jochen Bachfeld (East Germany) by decision, 2-3 (won bronze medal)

References

• databaseOlympics

External links

• Boxing record for Victor Zilberman from BoxRec (registration required)