Bohumil Nemechek ( Czech Bohumil Němeček ; January 2, 1938 , Tabor , Czechoslovakia - May 2, 2010 , Usti nad Labem , Czech Republic ) - Czechoslovak boxer, champion of the Olympic Games in Rome (1960).
 Bohumil Nemechek | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Czech Bohumil němeček | |||||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship |  Czechoslovakia | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date of Birth | January 2, 1938 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Tabor , Czechoslovakia | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | May 2, 2010 (72 years old) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Usti nad Labem , Czech Republic | |||||||||||||||||||
| Weight category | welterweight, 1st average weight | |||||||||||||||||||
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In his youth he was fond of hockey, but since 1955 he finally focused on boxing. Combining sport with the work of a bus driver in Decin, he managed to break into the Czechoslovak Olympic welterweight team (up to 63.5 kg).
The 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome was the first major international start for an athlete. Unexpectedly for everyone, he made it to the finals, on the way to which the Soviet boxer Vladimir Yengibaryan left the tournament at the 1/4 final stage. In a duel for gold, he defeated the representative of Ghana, Clemente Quarti, and became the third-ever Czechoslovak boxer to excel at the Olympics.
At the European Championships in Moscow in 1963 he won a bronze medal, and at the continental championship in Rome in 1967 he became the champion in the second welterweight (up to 67 kg).
Winner of the Dynamiad 1963, 1965, 1966.
After graduating from a sports career in 1968, he became a coach in Usti nad Labem and worked until his retirement.