Zvonimir Vujin

Zvonko Vujin

Zvonimir "Zvonko" Vujin (born July 23, 1943 in Zrenjanin , Yugoslavia ; † December 8, 2019 ) was a lightweight Yugoslavian amateur boxer (57 to 60 kg) and light welterweight (60 to 63.5 kg). He became Vice European Champion in 1967 and won bronze medals at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics.

Boxing career

He boxed for BK Banat Zrenjanin and was Yugoslav junior light flyweight champion in 1958, as well as Yugoslav lightweight champion in 1965, 1966, 1969 and 1972. He also won the Balkan lightweight championships in 1966 and 1967, and the Balkan light welterweight championships in 1971. He also won the lightweight Mediterranean Games in 1967 .

At the European Championships in Berlin in 1965 , he won the lightweight against the later Olympian László Gula from Hungary, but was defeated in the quarterfinals by the Russian and later European champion Wilikton Barannikow. In 1967 he became vice European lightweight champion in Rome . He defeated the German Wolfgang Schmitt and the Norwegian Sven Paulsen prematurely in the first round, defeated Dieter Dunkel (3rd place in the 1967 World Championships) on points in the semifinals and was only defeated in the final by the 1964 Olympic champion Józef Grudzień .

In 1968 he started in the lightweight at the Summer Olympics in Mexico City . He beat the German Peter Rieger and the Russian Valeri Belousov in the preliminary rounds , as well as the Peruvian Luis Minami in the quarter-finals. In the semifinals he was again subject to Józef Grudzień and thus won the bronze medal.

At the European Championships in Bucharest in 1969 , he won the lightweight against the Czech Tibor Hricisan, but failed in the quarterfinals against the Romanian and later European champion Calistrat Cuțov .

He also won the bronze medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich , this time in the light welterweight division. He beat Robert Mwakosya from Tanzania, Sodnomyn Gombo from Mongolia and Britain's Graham Moughton before losing to American Ray Seales in the semi- finals.

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personal data
SURNAME	Vujin, Zvonimir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Vujin, Zvonko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Yugoslav boxer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 23, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zrenjanin
DATE OF DEATH	December 8, 2019