Detlef Kästner

German boxer

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (March 2022) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the German article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 9,160 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Detlef Kästner]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Detlef Kästner}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Detlef Kästner

Kästner boxing in Halle, 1982

Personal information

Full name

Detlef Kästner

Nationality

East Germany

Born

(1958-03-20) 20 March 1958 (age 66)
Wurzen, East Germany

Height

1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)

Weight

71 kg (157 lb)

Sport

Boxing

Weight class

Light middleweight

Club

SC Dynamo Berlin, Berlin

Medal record

Men's boxing

Representing East Germany
Olympic Games
	1980 Moscow	Light middleweight

Detlef Kästner (born 20 March 1958) 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 light middleweight division (– 71 kg), after being defeated in the semifinals by eventual silver medalist Aleksandr Koshkyn of the USSR.^[1]

Olympic results

1st round bye
Defeated Adeoye Adetunji (Nigeria) KO 3
Defeated Leonidas Njunwa (Tanzania) 5–0
Lost to Aleksandr Koshkin (Soviet Union) 0–5

References

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Detlef Kästner". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2018.