





Romania's best pugilist dies aged 79
Linca won the gold medal at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, in a match against Fred Treidt, fought with a fractured finger. Linca had 306 official fights, losing only 25 of them. He retired in 1973, as a member of the Dinamo club and was awarded the "Sports Merrit" medal, First Class, in 2005, by the Romanian president.