Siegfried Mehnert
![]() Cuba's Juan Carlos Lemus (left) facing Siegfried Mehnert at the 1989 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Moscow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Siegfried Mehnert | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Schenkenberg, Bezirk Leipzig, East Germany | 3 March 1963|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight class | Welterweight | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | SV Halle, Halle an der Saale | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Siegfried Mehnert (born 3 March 1963 in Schenkenberg, Delitzsch, Bezirk Leipzig) is a former amateur boxer from East Germany. He is best known for twice winning the European title (1987 and 1989) in the men's welterweight (– 67 kg) division. He also competed at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
1988 Olympic results[]
Below is the Olympic record of Siegfried Mehnert, an East German welterweight boxer who competed at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.
- Round of 64: defeated Jose Ortiz (Puerto Rico) by decision, 5–0
- Round of 32: defeated Abdellas Taouane (Morocco) by decision, 5–0
- Round of 16: lost to Song Kyung-Sup (South Korea) by decision, 2–3
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- 1963 births
- Living people
- People from Delitzsch
- People from Bezirk Leipzig
- German male boxers
- Welterweight boxers
- Sportspeople from Saxony
- Olympic boxers of East Germany
- Boxers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
- Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
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