Mate Parlov - Amateur Highlights

Amateur Highlights

• Record: 257–19

• Eight-time champion of Yugoslavia

• Five-time champion of the Balkans

• 1973 - European Championships: Bucharest, Romania: Silver Medal (Middleweight)
  • Defeated Ewald Jarmer (West Germany) PTS
  • Defeated Janusz Gortat (Poland) PTS
  • Defeated Reima Virtanen (Finland) PTS
  • Lost to Vladimir Tarasenkov (Soviet Union) PTS
• Represented Yugoslavia as a Middleweight at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico.
  • Defeated Lahcen Ahidous (Mauritania) PTS
  • Defeated Jan van Ispelen (Netherlands) PTS
  • Lost to Chris Finnegan (England) PTS (Finnegan would win the gold medal)

• 1971 - European Championships: Madrid, Spain: Gold Medal (Light Heavyweight)
  • Defeated Anthony Roberts (Wales) PTS
  • Defeated Vladimir Metelev (Soviet Union) TKO 2
  • Defeated Janusz Gortat (Poland) PTS
  • Defeated Horst Stump (Romania) PTS
  • Defeated Ottomar Sachse (East Germany) PTS

• Won the Light Heavyweight Gold medal for Yugoslavia at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany.
  • Defeated Nouredine Aman Hassan (Chad) KO 2
  • Defeated Imre Toth (Hungary) KO 2
  • Defeated Miguel Angel Cuello (Argentina) Forfeit
  • Defeated Janusz Gortat (Poland) PTS
  • Defeated Gilberto Carrillo (Cuba) TKO 2

• 1973 - European Championships: Belgrade, Yugoslavia: Gold Medal (Light Heavyweight)
  • Defeated Michael Imrie (Scotland) TKO 1
  • Defeated William Knight (England) TKO 3
  • Defeated Oleg Karatayev (Soviet Union) TKO 2
  • Defeated Janusz Gortat (Poland) PTS

• 1974 - World Championships, Havanna, Cuba: Gold Medal (Light Heavyweight)
  • Defeated Constantin Dafinoiu (Romania) PTS
  • Defeated Gilberto Carrillo (Cuba) PTS
  • Defeated Ottomar Sachse (East Germany) PTS
  • Defeated Oleg Karatayev (Poland) TKO 2