Zachara in 1952 | ||
Medal record | ||
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Men’s Boxing | ||
Representing Czechoslovakia | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1952 Helsinki | Featherweight |
Ján Zachara (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈjaːn ˈzaxara]; born 27 August 1928) is a former Czechoslovak boxer who won the gold medal in the featherweight division at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Zachara also competed in 1956, losing in a quarterfinal to Pentti Hämäläinen of Finland on points. He was born in Kubrá, a borough of Trenčín, present-day Slovakia. [1]