Reima Valdemar Virtanen (born 5 November 1947 in

Kemi Kemi (; ; ; ) is a cities of Finland, town and municipalities of Finland, municipality of Finland. It is located approximately from the city of Tornio and the Finland–Sweden border, Swedish border. The distance to Oulu is to the south and t ...

Finnish Lapland Lapland is the largest and northernmost Regions of Finland, region of Finland. The 21 municipalities in the region cooperate in a Regional Council. Lapland borders the Finnish region of North Ostrobothnia in the south. It also borders the Gul ...

) is a former

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from

Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...

, who won the silver medal in the

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division (– 75 kg) at the

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. He was nicknamed "Kila" and "Rema" during his career. In the final Virtanen was knocked out in 2:17 of the first round by Vyacheslav Lemechev of the

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Olympic results

*1st round bye *Defeated

Titus Simba Titus Simba (born 30 November 1941, date of death unknown) was a Tanzanian boxer. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and of ...

(Tanzania) 3-2 *Defeated Witold Stachurski (Poland) TKO 3 *Defeated

Prince Amartey Prince Amartey (25 June 1944 – 23 September 2022) was a Ghanaian boxer, who won the bronze medal in the middleweight division (– 75 kg) at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He shared the podium with USA's Marvin Johnson. Previous ...

(Ghana) 3-2 *Lost to

Vyacheslav Lemeshev Vyacheslav Ivanovich Lemeshev () (April 3, 1952 in Moscow — January 27, 1996) was an Olympic boxer from the USSR. Soviet physiologists, while examining Lemeshev abilities with electronic measuring devices, discovered his extremely ...

(Soviet Union) KO by 1

References

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1947 births Living people Sportspeople from Kemi Middleweight boxers Boxers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for Finland Olympic silver medalists for Finland Olympic medalists in boxing Finnish male boxers Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics 20th-century Finnish sportsmen {{Finland-Olympic-medalist-stub