Ján Franek

Ján Franek
Personal information
Born14 April 1960 (1960-04-14) (age 64)
Žilina, Czechoslovakia
Sport
SportBoxing
Medal record
Men's amateur boxing
Representing  Czechoslovakia
Summer Olympics
Bronze medal – third place 1980 Moscow Light Middleweight
Friendship Games
Bronze medal – third place 1984 Havana Middleweight

Ján Franek (born 14 April 1960 in Žilina) is a retired boxer, who represented Czechoslovakia at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. There he won the bronze medal in the light middleweight division (– 71 kg), after being defeated in the semifinals by eventual gold medalist Armando Martínez. He is the father of 2009 Miss Slovakia Barbora Franekоvá. He was homeless after being in jail for 14 months. Then he went through couple of rehabs and now he's living in Žilina city. He played the character Franek in the 2015 film Goat.

Olympic results

References

  • "Ján Franek". databaseOlympics.com.[permanent dead link‍]
  • Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ján Franek". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
  • "Otci se už nedá pomoci, říká dcera bezdomovce a nová Miss Slovensko" [Father can no longer be helped, says daughter of homeless man and new Miss Slovakia]. iDNES.cz (in Czech). 19 April 2009.


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