Daan Bekker

Name: Daan Bekker
Birth Name: Daniel Wepener Bekker
Hometown: Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Birthplace: Dordrecht, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Died: 2009-10-22 (Age:77)
Height: 180cm
Pro Boxer: Record
Amateur Boxer: Record

Amateur Highlights

• South African Heavyweight Champion 1955-1959, 1961
• 1956 won the Heavyweight bronze medal at the Melbourne Olympics. Results were:
  • Defeated Jose Giorgetti (Argentina) KO-1
  • Lost to Pete Rademacher (USA) KO-3
• 1958 won the Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales. Results were:
  • Defeated S. Renaud (Canada) TKO-1
  • Defeated Gbadegesin Salawu (Nigeria) TKO-2
  • Defeated David Thomas (England) PTS
• 1960 won the Heavyweight silver medal at the Rome Olympics. Results were:
  • Defeated Wladyslaw Jedrzejewski (Poland) TKO-1
  • Defeated Obrad Sretenovic (Yugoslavia) KO-1
  • Defeated Gunter Siegmund (East Germany) PTS (4-1)
  • Lost to Franco De Piccoli (Italy) KO-2