Francisc Vaștag (; born 26 November 1969) is a retired

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, who won three world amateur titles between 1989 and 1995, in the welterweight and light middleweight categories. He competed at the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympics reaching quarterfinals in 1992. After retiring from competitions he coached the national boxing team. His son, Andrei Vaștag, is a

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who played for

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side

FC Dinamo București FC Dinamo București, commonly known as Dinamo București () or simply Dinamo, is a Romanian professional association football, football club based in Bucharest that competes in the Liga I. Founded in 1948 as the team of the Ministry of Inter ...

, among other teams.

References

External links

Francisc Vaștag profile
at Boxrec.com

1969 births Living people Sportspeople from Reșița Boxers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for Romania Romanian male boxers AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists Welterweight boxers 20th-century Romanian sportsmen {{romania-boxing-bio-stub