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Eiji Morioka

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Olympic medal record
Men's Boxing
Bronze medal – third place 1968 Mexico Bantamweight

Eiji Morioka (森岡 栄治, June 8, 1946 – November 9, 2004) was an Olympic boxing bronze medalist from Osaka, Japan.

Biography

Morioka won the inter-high school boxing tournament in his senior year, and entered Kinki University. He won the Japanese amateur boxing tournament four years in a row from 1965-1968. He was chosen as a member of the Japanese Olympic team for the 1968 Summer Olympics, and won a bronze medal in the bantamweight division.

He made his professional debut after graduating, but retired after it was discovered that he had suffered a detached retina. His professional record was 6-4-0 (3KOs).

After retiring, he served as the commissioner of the Western Japan Boxing Commission from 1998-2000. He also founded a boxing gym in Kawanishi, Hyogo. He died from cancer in 2004, at 58 years of age.

His nephew, Toshiyuki Morioka, has created a movie based on his life, which is set to be released in late 2007.

Olympic results