Nicolae Linca, 1956 Olympic Champion

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Nicolae Linca

Born January 2, 1929

Died June 28, 2008, Feisa, Romania

Amateur record (career): 306 matches, 25 losses.

1950

May 18 - International tournament
welterweight champion; Warsaw,
Poland.

1952

Mch. 12 - Leszek Sadowski W pts
Romania vs. Poland; Moscow, Soviet Union.
July 29 - Sergio Gascue W pts
(Venezuela)
July 30 - Guenther Heidemann L ko 1
(West Germany). Olympic welterweight participant (lost in second round of the competition); Helsinki, Finland.

1953

May 18 - Wilhelm Kraxner W pts
(Austria)
May 20 - Wojtech Krocak W pts
(Czechoslovakia)
May 22 - Zygmunt Chychla L pts
(Poland). European welterweight semifinalist; Warsaw, Poland.

1955

May 30 - Melek W pts
(Turkey)
June 3 - Hippolyte Annex L pts
(France). European welterweight semifinalist; Berlin, East Germany.
Aug. 8 - Fethi Abdel Rahman W pts
(Egypt)
Aug. 10 - Schoene W rsc 3
(East Germany)
Aug. 11 - Tadeusz Walasek L pts
(Poland). World Festival of Youth and Students welterweight finalist; Warsaw, Poland.

1956

July 4 - Lipiak W rsc 2
Romania vs. Czechoslovakia; Brno, Czechoslovakia.
Nov. 23 - Hector Hatch W pts
(Fiji)
Nov. 28 - Nicholas Andre W pts
(South Africa)
Nov. 31 - Nicholas Gargano W pts
(Great Britain)
Dec. 1 - Fred Tiedt W pts
(Ireland). Olympic welterweight champion; Melbourne, Australia.

1957

Dec. - Erich Posorski W pts
(Romania vs. East Germany); Berlin, East Germany.

1958

Aug. - Yuri Radoniak (Soviet Union) W pts
Moscow Youth Festival welterweight champion; Moscow, Soviet Union.
Sept. 27 - Aldo Banovac W
Romania vs. Yugoslavia; Bucharest, Romania.

1959

May 24 - Laszlo Sebok W pts
(Hungary)
May 25 - Carmelo Bossi L pts
(Italy). European welterweight quarterfinalist; Lucerne, Switzerland.

Undated

xxxx - Marian Ponanta (Poland)

xxxx, 1950 - Sergey Shcherbakov (Soviet Union), Warsaw

xxxx - Bertil Larsson (Sweden)

xxxx - Martin (Hungary)

NOTE: Linca’s victories in the semifinals and finals of the 1956 Olympics were furiously disputed in some quarters and the stigma of those two bouts hung over his head for years afterwards. But the fact that he fractured his right thumb in his first Olympic contest and had to take Novocaine injections to get him through his three remaining bouts moderates some of the criticism leveled at him. His partial record above, though very incomplete, testifies to the quality of competition he faced during his career and the success he finally came to enjoy.