Karl-Heinz Krüger
Appearance
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Full name | Karl-Heinz Krüger | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | East Germany | ||||||||||||||
Born | Templin, Brandenburg | December 25, 1953||||||||||||||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||
Weight class | Welterweight | ||||||||||||||
Club | ASK Vorwärts Frankfurt | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Karl-Heinz Krüger (born December 25, 1953) is a retired boxer, who represented East Germany at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. There he won the bronze medal in the welterweight division (– 67 kg), after being defeated in the semifinals by eventual gold medalist Andrés Aldama of Cuba. Two years earlier he also captured the bronze, at the second World Championships in Belgrade.
Olympic results
- Defeated Mohammad Ali Eldahhan (Syria) 5-0
- Defeated Lucas Msomba (Tanzania) 5-0
- Defeated Joseph Frost (Great Britain) 5-0
- Lost to Andrés Aldama (Cuba) 0-5
References
Categories:
- 1953 births
- Living people
- Welterweight boxers
- Boxers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers of East Germany
- Olympic bronze medalists for East Germany
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- German male boxers
- AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
- German boxing biography stubs
- German Olympic medalist stubs