 Cosimo Pinto in 1964 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 14 March 1943 (age 81) Novara, Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 81 kg (179 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | CS Esercito | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cosimo Pinto (born 14 March 1943) is an Italian retired Amateur boxer who won a gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics. [1] Contrary to most of his teammates he remained an amateur and won a bronze medal at the 1967 European championships.
Pinto started his boxing training after his military service in 1962. He was inspired by the 1960 Summer Olympics bronze medallist Giulio Saraudi. A year into his career, in 1963 Pinto won the gold medal at the Mediterranean Games in his home country and a few months later he travelled to Tokyo and won the Pre-Olympic tournament via knockout over Tadayuki Maruyama.
The following year in the Olympics, Pinto had a fairly easy path to the final but then faced Aleksei Kiselyov, who proved he was a tough adversary in the preliminary bouts. The fight played out and turned into a negative incident. Two judges gave the contest to the Italian by a single point, while the other three judges had the two men level with 59 points. Two of the tied judges gave the decision to Kiselyov but the third judge gave it Pinto thus, crowning him the Olympic gold medal. [2]
Below are the results of Cosimo Pinto, [3] as a light heavyweight boxer at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo:
Pinto won two Italian boxing championships. The first being in 1965 and the second in 1967. He was bronze medal winner at the 1967 European Championships held in Rome. In 1968, right before the Olympics, Pinto retired from boxing at the age of 25. [2]
After his retirement, Pinto worked in a bank for many years. [2]
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