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Bert Schneider
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Welterweight
Male, Amateur (Albert Schneider) (Julius Gustav Albert Schneider) Canada, Montreal, Quebec Born: July 1, 1897, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Died: February 20, 1986, Height: Weight: 66,700 kg Stance: Orthodox
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as an amateur:
1920 Antwerp, Belgium, Olympic Games welterweight gold medal
Schneider was the first Canadian to win an Olympic boxing gold medal.
Only two other Canadian boxers have achieved that feat in all the years since: Horace Gwynne in 1932 and Lennox Lewis in 1988.
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