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/ref> Ramón Tapia Zapata (March 17, 1932 in
Antofagasta Antofagasta () is a port city in northern Chile, about north of Santiago. It is the capital of Antofagasta Province and Antofagasta Region. According to the 2015 census, the city has a population of 402,669. Once claimed by Bolivia follo ...
– April 12, 1984) was a
Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...
an
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who won the silver medal in the middleweight division at the
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in
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. Tapia died in 1984.


Olympic results

*Defeated Zbigniew Piórkowski (Poland) K.O. *Defeated
Július Torma Július Torma (7 March 1922, Budapest – 23 October 1991, Prague) was a Slovaks, Slovak boxing, boxer competing for Czechoslovakia. He won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1948 for Czechoslovakia in the category up to 67 kg. He co ...
(Czechoslovakia) K.O. *Defeated Gilbert Chapron (France) points *Lost to Gennadi Shatkov (Soviet Union) K.O.


References

1932 births 1984 deaths Olympic boxers for Chile Boxers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Chile Sportspeople from Antofagasta Olympic medalists in boxing Chilean male boxers Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics Middleweight boxers 20th-century Chilean sportsmen {{Chile-boxing-bio-stub