Ján Franek

Ján Franek

Personal information
Born	14 April 1960 (1960-04-14) (age 64) Žilina, Czechoslovakia
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Medal record Men's amateur boxing Representing Czechoslovakia Summer Olympics 1980 Moscow Light Middleweight Friendship Games 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

• Defeated Benedetto Gravina (Italy) KO 2
• Defeated Zhelio Stefanov (Bulgaria) DQ 3
• Defeated Wilson Kaoma (Zambia) KO 2
• Lost to Armando Martínez (Cuba) RSC 2

References

• "Ján Franek". databaseOlympics.com.
• 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.

External links

• Boxing record for Ján Franek from BoxRec (registration required)
• Ján Franek at Olympedia
• Ján Franek at Olympics.com
• Ján Franek at Olympijskytym.cz (in Czech)