Danas Pozniakas

Boxer (1939–2005)

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Born

19 October 1939, Poland

Died

4 February 2005, Vilnius

Citizenship

Soviet Union, Lithuania

Sport

boxing

Discipline

light heavyweight

Occupation

boxer

Height

182 cm (6 ft 0 in)

Weight

81 kg (179 lb)

Danas Pozniakas (19 October 1939 – 4 February 2005) was a Lithuanian amateur light-heavyweight boxer who won the European title in 1965, 1967 and 1969 and an Olympic gold medal in 1968.

Pozniakas was born in Poland as Dan Pozniak, and in the 1950s moved to Vilnius, Lithuania, where he took up boxing at age 13. He won the Soviet title in 1962 and a European silver medal in 1963, but at the 1964 Olympic trials lost to Aleksei Kiselyov and was not selected. By the next Olympics, he was a double European champion and a clear favorite. He decisively won his first three bouts and received the Olympic gold by default, as his opponent Ion Monea had a broken nose from his previous fight and withdrew from the final. Monea lost to Pozniakas in the 1967 and 1969 European championships.

Competitions

Awards and honours

• Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour

External links

• Wikipedia
• BoxRec
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q1159277 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.