BOXER

Ján Zachara

1928 - 2025

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Ján Zachara (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈjaːn ˈzaxara]; 27 August 1928 – 2 January 2025) was a Slovak boxer. Representing Czechoslovakia, he won the gold medal in the featherweight division at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Zachara also competed in 1956, losing in a quarterfinal to Pentti Hämäläinen of Finland on points. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ján Zachara is the 9th most popular boxer (up from 94th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Slovakia (up from 185th in 2019) and the most popular Slovak Boxer.

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Among BOXERS

Among boxers, Ján Zachara ranks 9 out of 496. Before him are Joe Frazier, Mike Tyson, George Foreman, Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Max Schmeling. After him are Vitali Klitschko, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Sonny Liston, Rubin Carter, Teófilo Stevenson, and Carlos Monzón.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Ján Zachara ranks 64. Before him are Osamu Shimomura, Hardy Krüger, Reynaldo Bignone, Karlheinz Böhm, Takeshi Inoue, and Jacques Rivette. After him are Geert Hofstede, Alan J. Pakula, James Garner, Pat Hitchcock, Hannah Pick-Goslar, and Giampiero Boniperti. Among people deceased in 2025, Ján Zachara ranks 41. Before him are Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Peter Lax, Violeta Chamorro, Jochen Mass, and Costas Simitis. After him are Alfredo Palacio, Vitold Fokin, Oleg Gordievsky, Alfred Brendel, Luis Galván, and Oliviero Toscani.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Ján Zachara ranks 26 out of 418. Before him are Jozef Gabčík (1912), Vojtech Tuka (1880), Ernst von Dohnányi (1877), Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880), Ľudovít Štúr (1815), and Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734). After him are Pribina (800), Andrej Babiš (1954), Edita Gruberová (1946), Ivan Reitman (1946), Zuzana Čaputová (1973), and Rudolf Schuster (1934).

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Among BOXERS In Slovakia

Among boxers born in Slovakia, Ján Zachara ranks 1. After him are Andrej Csemez (1998), and Jajaira Gonzalez (null).

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