Ján Zachara
Czechoslovak boxer (1928–2025)
Ján Zachara (27 August 1928 – 2 January 2025) was a Czechoslovak boxer who won the gold medal in the featherweight division at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He was born in Kubrá, a borough of Trenčín, present-day Slovakia.[1]
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| Born | 27 August 1928 Trenčín, Czechoslovakia | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 2 January 2025 (aged 96) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||
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Zachara died on 2 January 2025, at the age of 96.[2]
References
change- ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ján Zachara". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- ↑ "Vo veku 96 rokov zomrel bývalý slovenský boxer a olympijský víťaz Ján Zachara". Denník N (in Slovak). 2 January 2025.
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