Reima Virtanen

Reima Virtanen
Personal information
Born5 November 1947 (1947-11-05) (age 77)
Medal record
Men's Boxing
Representing  Finland
Olympic Games
1972 MunichMiddleweight
European Amateur Championships
1969 BucharestMiddleweight
1971 MadridMiddleweight

Reima Valdemar Virtanen (born 5 November 1947 in Kemi, Finnish Lapland) is a former boxer from Finland, who won the silver medal in the middleweight division ( 75 kg) at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He was nicknamed "Kila" and "Rema" during his career. In the final Virtanen was knocked out in 2:17 of the first round by Vyacheslav Lemechev of the Soviet Union.