Maurizio Stecca (born 9 March 1963) is a retired Italian

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, who won the Bantamweight Gold medal at the

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. He is the younger brother of former super bantamweight world champion of boxing,

Loris Stecca Loris Stecca (born 30 March 1960) is an Italian former world champion boxer. He is the older brother of former featherweight world champion of boxing, Maurizio Stecca. Professional career Stecca held the WBA super bantamweight title for thre ...

Professional career

Stecca began his professional career in 1984 and compiled a career record of 49–4–0. He won the WBO Featherweight Title in 1991 and successfully defended it three times.

Amateur accomplishments

*1979-1981 Italian Bantamweight Champion *1984 Olympic Bantamweight Gold Medalist

1984 Olympic Results

Below are the results of Maurizio Stecca, an Italian bantamweight boxer who competed at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics: *Round of 32: Defeated

Philip Sutcliffe Snr Philip Sutcliffe (born 10 November 1959) is an Irish politician, former boxer and two-time Olympian. He competed at the 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games. Additionally, he was the winner of four national titles in Ireland, two at bantamweight and one ...

(Ireland) on points *Round of 16: Defeated Star Zulu (Zambia) on points *Quarterfinal: Defeated Robinson Pitalua (Colombia) on points *Semifinal: Defeated

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(Dominican Republic) on points *Final: Defeated Héctor López (Mexico) on points (won gold medal)

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1963 births Living people Sportspeople from the Province of Rimini Boxers at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for Italy Olympic gold medalists for Italy Featherweight boxers World featherweight boxing champions World Boxing Organization champions Olympic medalists in boxing Italian male boxers Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics People from Santarcangelo di Romagna 20th-century Italian sportsmen {{Italy-Olympic-medalist-stub