Mircea Dobrescu

Name: Mircea Dobrescu
Alias: Hercule de Buzunar
Birth Name: Dobrescu Mircea Marin
Hometown: Bucharest, Romania
Birthplace: Cotorca, Romania
Died: 2015-08-06 (Age:84)
Amateur Boxer: Record

Mircea Dobrescu (born September 5, 1930 - died August 6, 2015) was a boxer from Romania, who won the silver medal in the flyweight division (– 51 kg) at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. In the final he was defeated by Terry Spinks of Great Britain on points. Dobrescu competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1952.

Olympic games results

1952 (as a flyweight)

• Defeated Yoshitaro Nagata (Japan) 2-1
• Defeated Roland Johansson (Sweden) 3-0
• Lost to Nate Brooks (United States) 1-2 (quarterfinal)

1956 (as a flyweight)

• Defeated Federico Bonus (Philippines) PTS
• Defeated Ray Perez (United States) PTS
• Defeated Johnny Caldwell (Ireland) PTS
• Lost to Terry Spinks (Great Britain) PTS

1960 (as a flyweight)

• Defeated Jose Neves (Brazil) 5-0
• Defeated Paul Chervet (Switzerland) KO 1
• Lost to Kiyoshi Tanabe (Japan) 1-4