Ricardo Rojas Frías (born June 15, 1955) is a retired

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from

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, who represented his native country at the

1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...

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. There he won the bronze medal in the

light heavyweight Light heavyweight, also referred to as junior cruiserweight or light cruiserweight, is a weight class in combat sports. Boxing Professional In professional boxing, the division is above and up to , falling between super middleweight and cruise ...

division (– 81 kg), after being defeated in the semifinals by eventual silver medalist

Paweł Skrzecz Paweł Ludwik Skrzecz (born 25 August 1957 in Warsaw) is a retired boxer from Poland, who won the silver medal in the light heavyweight division (– 81 kg) at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. In the final ...

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1980 Olympic results

*Round of 16: Defeated

Ismail Salman Ismail Khalil Salman (born 13 June 1957) is an Iraqi boxer. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were ...

(Iraq) by decision, 5-0 *Quarterfinal: Defeated Michael Madsen (Denmark) by decision, 4-1 *Semifinal: Lost to Pawel Skrzecz (Poland) by decision, 2-3 (was awarded bronze medal)

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