| Roles | Competed in Olympic Games |
|---|---|
| Sex | Male |
| Full name | Abel "Abe"•Bekker |
| Used name | Abe•Bekker |
| Born | 10 June 1935 in Mufulira, Copperbelt (ZAM) |
| Died | 9 January 2025 (aged 89 years 6 months 29 days) in ?, England (GBR) |
| Measurements | 170 cm / 57 kg |
| NOC |  Rhodesia |
Abe Bekker was a boxer from what was then Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, who competed at the 1960 Roma Olympics for Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and was eliminated in the quarter-finals. Bekker competed at the 1954 and 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, winning a silver medal in the flyweight class in 1954 and losing in the quarter-finals as a bantamweight in 1958. Bekker later settled in Zimbabwe where he became a renowned trainer of boxers, notably during the 1970s and 1980s.
| Games | Discipline (Sport) / Event | NOC / Team | Pos | Medal | As | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 Summer Olympics | Boxing | RHO |
Abe Bekker | |||
| Featherweight, Men (Olympic) | =5 |
