Josef Němec

For the footballer of the same name, see Josef Němec (footballer).

Josef Němec (25 September 1933 – 10 September 2013)^[1] was a boxer from Czechoslovakia.

Josef Němec

Medal record
Men's Boxing
Representing  Czechoslovakia
Olympic Games
	1960 Rome	Heavyweight
European Championship
	1957 Prague	Heavyweight
	1959 Lucerne	Heavyweight
	1963 Moscow	Heavyweight

Born in České Budějovice, Czechoslovakia, he competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia, going out in the quarter-finals of the heavyweight event. He returned to the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy, again as a heavyweight boxer where he went one better, going out in the semi-final to finish in third place. In Moscow 1963 he became European champion.

Němec died in České Budějovice on 10 September 2013, aged 79.