BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- Nicolae Linca, a boxer who won the welterweight gold medal at the 1956 Olympics while fighting with a broken wrist, died at his home Saturday. He was 79. Linca died in his hometown of Feisa in Transylvania, boxing officials said. Daily Pro-Sport reported he had been ailing for several years with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. "He left a legacy which even now we have the duty to try and equalize, and why not, even to do better," said Rudel Obraja, president of the Romanian Boxing Federation.
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