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Born | 11 September 1968 53) Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, East Germany | (age||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Andreas Tews (born 11 September 1968) is a German former amateur boxer. Tews won the Flyweight Silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the Featherweight Gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
His first international success came with his second place in the Flyweight class at the 1986 European Junior Championships held in Copenhagen. Just one year after that he won the European Senior Championship at Turin. In the 1991 European Championships at Gothenburg he came in third.
Tews never boxed professionally and is currently a trainer at Gymnasium Rahlstedt in Hamburg, Germany.
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