Francisc Ambruș

Francisc Ambruș was born in Cluj-Napoca and attended schooling in a nearby town where he earned a diploma at a school for mechanical and electrical engineering. He took up boxing as a student and won a youth championship in featherweight in 1947. He followed up the next two years with winning consecutive Romanian featherweight titles. He became a soldier in the sports squadron of the Casa Centrală a Armatei (CCA) in 1950 and continued to win awards in various other domestic competitions, though he did not win another national title.

In 1952, he was selected for the Romanian Olympic boxing team to compete in Helsinki. There, he competed in the light featherweight event and lost in the second round to eventual silver medallist Viktor Mednov of the Soviet Union. Back home, he was later awarded the title of Master of Sports, and continued to be active in competition until 1958. Ambruș later took up coaching and was a well-known boxing trainer in his hometown of Cluj-Napoca.