Nickname(s) Blue eyes Nationality Romanian Role Boxer Division Middleweight | Rated at Middleweight Name Vasile Tita Martial art Boxing Stance Orthodox stance | |
Born 21 February 1928Bucuresti, Romania ( 1928-02-21 ) Olympic medals Boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics - Middleweight People also search for Floyd Patterson, Stig Sjolin, Boris Nikolov | ||
Vasile Tiţă (21 February 1928 – 24 June 2013) was a Romanian amateur middleweight boxer. He won a silver medal at his first major international tournament, the 1952 Olympics, losing in the final to Floyd Patterson. After that he competed at the 1953, 1955 and 1957 European championships with the best result of reaching the quarterfinals in 1955. Domestically he won seven consecutive national titles in 1951–57, six in the 71 kg and one in the 75 kg division. He died aged 85 after suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for a decade.
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