Nicolae Linca (1 January 1929 – 27 June 2008) was a Romanian amateur welterweight boxer.

Fighting with a broken finger, he won against Fred Tiedt in a 3:2 split decision.

Today, he remains the only Romanian boxer to win gold at the Olympics.

[2] By the 1990s he was living in poverty and suffering from Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, which led to his deaths at the age of 79.

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