Jürgen Fanghänel (born 1 August 1951) is a retired East German amateur boxer, who competed in 1970s and 1980s.
![]() | This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (August 2022) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
![]() Fanghänel fighting at the 1980 Olympic Eliminator | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full name | Jürgen Fanghänel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1951-08-01) 1 August 1951 (age 71) Limbach-Oberfrohna, Saxony | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 90 kg (198 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight class | Heavyweight | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Sportclub Karl-Marx-Stadt Sport Gemeinschaft Wismut Gera | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Fanghänel won the bronze medal in the men's heavyweight division (91 kg) at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. There he was defeated in the semifinals by Pyotr Zayev of the Soviet Union. Two years earlier he also captured the bronze medal, at the second World Championships in Belgrade. In 1982 he ended up second at the World Championships in Munich, West Germany.
1972 – Munich
1976 – Montreal
1980 – Moscow
![]() | This biographical article related to a German boxer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
![]() ![]() | This article about a German Olympic medalist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |