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Laszlo Papp

Male

(László Papp)
Middleweight, Hungary, Budapest
Born: 25 March 1926, Budapest, Hungary
Died: 16 October 2003, Budapest, Hungary
Height: 5ft 5 1/2in, mt 1,65
Southpaw

as an amateur:
1948 London, England, Olympic Games middleweight gold medal
1949, Oslo, Norway, European middleweight gold medal
1951, Milano, Italy, European middleweight gold medal
1952 Helsinki, Finland, Olympic Games super-welterweight gold medal
1956 Melbourne, Australia, Olympic Games super-welterweight gold medal

Amateur results

Date	Opponent	Place	Result
1945
Pecs, Hungary, Dual Match Hungary vs Austria, 73 kg
+ Sept. 13	Bohm	Pecs, Hungary	WKO 1
+ Oct. 6	Gyula Bicsak	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 2
Pecs, Hungary, Dual Match Hungary vs Czechoslovakia, 73 kg
+ Oct. 10	Nesladek	Pecs, Hungary	WKO 2
+ Oct. 29	Sagi	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 2
+ Nov. 12	Hegedus	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
+ Nov. 18	Olah	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
Budapest, Hungary, Dual Match Hungary vs Austria, 73 kg
+ Dec. 8	Neumayer	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 2
1946
Pecs, Hungary, Dual Match Hungary vs Austria, 73 kg
+ Feb. 3	Posgatsch	Pecs, Hungary	WKO 2
+ Feb. 5	Poniak	Pecs, Hungary	WKO 1
- Mar. 20	Budai	Budapest, Hungary	LPTS
Czechoslovakia, Dual Match Czechoslovakia vs Hungary, 73 kg
+ Apr. 6	Pelczner	Brno, Czechoslovakia	WKO 2
+ Apr. 10	Rabina	Kiev-Dukla, Czechoslovakia	WPTS
+ Apr. 14	Strubi	Brno, Czechoslovakia	WKO 2
+ Apr. 20	Kaisor	Revnice, Czechoslovakia	WPTS
+ Apr. 25	Pinok	Vyskov, Czechoslovakia	WKO 1
+ Apr. 30	Huilo	Hodonin, Czechoslovakia	WKO 2
- May 5	Lanyi	Budapest, Hungary	LPTS
Poznan, Poland, Dual Match Poland vs Hungary, 73 kg
= June 16	Jareczki	Poznan, Poland	Draw
Pozsony, Czechoslovakia, Tournament with Hungary, Czechoslovakia and URS, 73 kg
- Aug. 8	Julius Torma	Pozsony, Czechoslovakia	LPTS
- Aug. 10	Evgeni Ogurenkov	Pozsony, Czechoslovakia	LPTS
1947
+ Jan. 12	Simon	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
Zagreb, Yugoslavia, Dual Match Yugoslavia vs Hungary, 73 kg
+ Jan. 19	Zvorko	Zagreb, Yugoslavia	WPTS
+ Jan. 22	Jurcec	Zagreb, Yugoslavia	WKO 1
Budapest, Hungary, Dual Match Hungary vs Austria, 73 kg
+ Feb. 23	Kasperec	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
- Mar. 2	Laszlo Szabo	Budapest, Hungary	LKO
+ Mar. 23	Lanyi	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
Budapest, Hungary, Dual Match Hungary vs Yugoslavia, 73 kg
+ Mar. 30	Ticic	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
Dublin, Ireland, European Championships quarter-finals, 72,600 kg
- May 14	Julius Torma	Dublin, Ireland	LPTS
Zagreb and Rijeka, Yugoslavia, Dual Match Yugoslavia vs Hungary, 73 kg
= June 10	Devcsics	Zagreb, Yugoslavia	Draw
+ June 11	Cavdenag	Rijeka, Yugoslavia	WKO 2
+ July 7	Nemeth	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
+ July 9	Windt	Budapest, Hungary	WWO
+ July 11	Fodor	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
Budapest, Hungary, Dual Match Hungary vs Italy, 73 kg
+ July 14	Alessandro D'Ottavio	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
+ Nov. 23	Nemeth	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
+ Nov. 29	Laszlo Bene	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
+ Dec. 6	Harai	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
+ Dec. 13	D. Nagy	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
Poznań and Warsaw, Poland, Dual Match Poland vs Hungary, 73 kg
+ Dec. 28	Antoni Kolczynski	Poznań, Poland	WPTS
+ Dec. 30	Jerzy Trzesowski	Warsaw, Poland	WPTS
1948
Lodz, Poland, Dual Match Poland vs Hungary, 73 kg
+ Jan. 1	Jozef Pisarki	Lodz, Poland	WPTS
Budapest, Hungary, Dual Match Hungary vs Austria, 73 kg
+ Jan. 9	Bauer	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
Budapest, Hungary, Dual Match Hungary vs Yugoslavia, 73 kg
+ Jan. 24	Mikolics	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
Budapest, Hungary, Dual Match Hungary vs Poland, 73 kg
+ Jan. 28	Szymankiewicz	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 3
Budapest, Hungary, Dual Match Hungary vs Czechoslovakia, 73 kg
+ Feb. 7	Cernohorsky	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
Milano, Italy, Dual Match Italy vs Hungary, 72.600 kg
+ Mar. 8	Renato Aiello	Milano, Italy	WTKO 3
Torino, Italy, Dual Match Hungary vs Italy, 72.600 kg
+ Mar. 10	Filippo Crespi	Torino, Italy	WPTS
Prato, Italy, Dual Match Hungary vs Italy, 72.600 kg
+ Mar. 12	Ivano Fontana	Prato, Italy	WPTS
Budapest, Hungary, Dual Match Hungary vs Czechoslovakia, 72.600 kg
+ July 5	Horymir Netuka	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
London, England, Olympic Games gold medal, 72,600 kg
+ Aug. 7	Valle Resko	London, England	WKO 2
+ Aug. 10	Jean Welter	London, England	WKO 1
+ Aug. 11	Auguste Cavignac	London, England	WKO 1
+ Aug. 12	Ivano Fontana	London, England	WPTS
+ Aug. 13	John Wright	London, England	WPTS
+ Sept. 3	Karolfyi	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
+ Sept. 5	Kocsis	Gyor, Hungary	WKO 2
Budapest, Hungary, Dual Match Hungary vs Poland, 73 kg
+ Oct. 17	Zbigniew Zagorski	Budapest, Hungary	WTKO 2
Warsaw and Szczecin, Poland, Dual Match Poland vs Hungary, 72.600 kg
+ Nov. 28	Antoni Kolczynski	Warsaw, Poland	WPTS
+ Dec. 1	Kwiatowski	Szczecin, Poland	WPTS
1949
+ Jan. 9	Hauk	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
+ Jan. 16	Jozsef Marton	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
Gdansk, Poland, Dual Match Poland vs Hungary, 72.600 kg
+ Mar. 1	Henryk Nowara	Gdansk, Poland	WPTS
+ Apr. 2	Vari	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
+ Apr. 10	Meszaros	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
Budapest, Hungary, Dual Match Hungary vs Czechoslovakia, 72.600 kg
+ May 8	Vytlacil	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
+ May 22	Besmanitis	Kaposvar, Hungary	WPTS
Oslo, Norway, European Championships gold medal, 73 kg
+ June 15	Arthur Acha	Oslo, Norway	WKO 1
+ June 16	Ivano Fontana	Oslo, Norway	WPTS
+ June 17	Stig Sjoelin	Oslo, Norway	WPTS
+ July 9	Pievera	Budapest, Hunargy	WKO 1
+ Aug. 15	Boamfa	Budapest, Hunargy	WKO 1
+ Aug. 17	Zbigniew Cebulak	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
+ Aug. 19	Kogan	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 3
+ Sept. 16	Csontos	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
+ Oct. 15	Pader	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
+ Oct. 29	Csiba	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
1950
+ Feb. 5	Gyula Dioslaki	Gyor, Hungary	WKO 1
+ Feb. 12	Csontos	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 3
+ Feb. 19	Devai	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
+ Feb. 25	P. Szabo	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
+ Mar. 4	Odor	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
Warsaw, Poland, International Tournament gold medal, 73 kg
+ May 14	Boris Silchev	Warsaw, Poland	WPTS
+ May 17	Vasile Tita	Warsaw, Poland	WKO 2
+ May 18	Henryk Nowara	Warsaw, Poland	WPTS
+ May 26	Laszlo Bene	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
+ Sept. 29	I. Torkeli	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
+ Oct. 8	Frank	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
Prague, Czechoslovakia, Dual Match Czechoslovakia vs Hungary, 79,4 kg
+ Oct. 15	Julius Torma	Prague, Czechoslovakia	WPTS
+ Oct. 28	Buzas	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
Budapest, Hungary, Dual Match Hungary vs Poland, 80 kg
+ Nov. 12	Antoni Kolczynski	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
+ Nov. 19	Tauzin	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 2
+ Nov. 26	Valuch	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
1951
+ Mar. 4	Pader	Pecs, Hungary	WKO 1
Milano, Italy, European Championships gold medal, 71 kg
+ May 15	Aristide Dal Piaz	Milano, Italy	WKO 1
+ May 17	Veljko Konig	Milano, Italy	WPTS
+ May 18	Alf Lay	Milano, Italy	WPTS
+ May 19	Jens Andersen	Milano, Italy	WPTS
Berlin, East Germany, World Festival of Youth and Students Tournament gold medal, 71 kg
+ Aug. 8	Gerard Musial	Berlin, East Germany	WPTS
+ Aug. 11	Boris Tishin	Berlin, East Germany	WPTS
Budapest, Hungary, Hungarian Championships gold medal, 71 kg
+ Nov. 9	Sandor	Budapest, Hungary	WDQ 1
+ Nov. 10	Gyula Dioslaki	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
+ Nov. 11	Jozsef Sipocz	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
Budapest, Hungary, Dual Match Hungary vs East Germany, 71 kg
+ Nov. 18	Walter Schulze	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
1952
Budapest, Hungary, Dual Match Hungary vs Czechoslovakia, 71 kg
+ Jan. 5	Prihoda	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
Poznań, Poland, Dual Match Poland vs Hungary, 71 kg
+ Jan. 27	Gerard Musial	Poznań, Poland	WPTS
Stockholm, Sweden, Dual Match Sweden vs Hungary, 71 kg
+ Feb. 7	Goete Wiklander	Stockholm, Sweden	WPTS
Moscow, Soviet Union, Dual Match Bulgaria, Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia vs Hungary, 71 kg
+ Mar. 8	Hristo Mitriev	Moscow, Soviet Union	WPTS
+ Mar. 10	Boris Tishin	Moscow, Soviet Union	WPTS
+ Mar. 11	Walter Schulze	Moscow, Soviet Union	WPTS
+ Mar. 12	Vojtech Krocak	Moscow, Soviet Union	WPTS
+ Apr. 19	Jozsef Sipocz	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 2
+ Apr. 20	Waluch	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
Helsinki, Finland, Olympic Games gold medal, 71 kg
+ July 29	Ellsworth Webb	Helsinki, Finland	WKO 2
+ July 30	Charles Chase	Helsinki, Finland	WKO 2
+ July 31	Petar Spasov	Helsinki, Finland	WPTS
+ Aug. 1	Eladio Herrera	Helsinki, Finland	WPTS
+ Aug. 2	Theunis van Schalwyk	Helsinki, Finland	WPTS
+ Nov. 16	Matyas Plachy	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
+ Nov. 21	Kapocsi	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 2
+ Dec. 11	Pakozdi	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 2
+ Dec. 14	Szakacs	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
1953
+ Feb. 1	Jozsef Marton	Debrecen, Hungary	WPTS
+ Mar. 14	Kovacs	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
+ Mar. 15	Jozsef Marton	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 2
Warsaw, Poland, European Championships preliminaries, 71 kg
- May 21	Boris Tishin	Warsaw, Poland	LPTS
+ July 5	Jozsef Marton	Kaposvar, Hungary	WKO 1
Bucharest, Romania, World Festival of Youth and Students Tournament gold medal, 71 kg
+ Aug. 8	Fournier	Bucharest, Romania	WKO 1
+ Aug. 10	Franz Struzny	Bucharest, Romania	WKO 2
+ Aug. 12	Ion Pintea	Bucharest, Romania	WAB 1
+ Aug. 14	Gleb Tolstikov	Bucharest, Romania	WPTS
+ Nov. 14	Molnar	Tatabanya, Hungary	WDQ 1
Budapest, Hungary, Hungarian Team National Championships, 75 kg
+ Dec. 25	Istvan Raduly	Budapest, Hungary	WAB 1
+ Dec. 27	Matyas Plachy	Budapest, Hungary	WWO
1954
Budapest, Hungary, Dual Match Hungary vs Poland, 71 kg
+ Jan. 24	Zbigniew Pietrzykowski	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
+ Feb. 28	Csontos	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
+ Mar. 14	Pader	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
Budapest, Hungary, International Tournament gold medal, 71 kg
+ Apr. 4	Boris Nikolov	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
+ Apr. 5	Vojtech Krocak	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
+ Apr. 6	Erwin Haas	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
+ Apr. 7	Vojtech Krocak	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
+ Apr. 24	Istvan Raduly	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 2
Budapest, Hungary, Hungarian Championships gold medal, 75 kg
+ May 6	Kiraly	Budapest, Hungary	WAB 2
+ May 8	Istvan Raduly	Budapest, Hungary	WAB 3
+ May 9	Kalman Legeny	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
Berlin, East Germany, World Festival of Youth and Students Tournament gold medal, 71 kg
+ June 4	Haas	Berlin, East Germany	WKO 2
+ June 5	Weiss	Berlin, East Germany	WKO 2
+ June 6	Boris Georgiev	Berlin, East Germany	WPTS
Budapest, Hungary, International Tournament gold medal, 71 kg
+ Aug. 1	Popescu	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
+ Aug. 3	Mitriev	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
+ Aug. 4	Darbajszeli	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 3
Vienna and Salzburg, Austria, Dual Match Austria vs Hungary, 71 kg
+ Oct. 3	Wolf	Vienna, Austria	WPTS
+ Oct. 5	Weikinger	Salzburg, Austria	WTKO 1
+ Oct. 8	Sulyok	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
+ Oct. 31	Istvan Raduly	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
+ Nov. 18	Palla	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
+ Nov. 25	Csiszar	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
+ Nov. 26	Vepi	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
Gothenburg, Sweden, Dual Match Sweden vs Hungary, 75 kg
+ Dec. 3	Stig Sjoelin	Gothenburg, Sweden	WPTS
Trollhättan, Sweden, Dual Match Sweden vs Hungary, 81 kg
+ Dec. 6	Bror Sandgren	Trollhättan, Sweden	WPTS
1955
Budapest, Hungary, Dual Match Hungary vs Bulgaria, 71 kg
+ Feb. 13	Boris Georgiev	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
+ Feb. 19	Ferenc Hollos	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 2
+ Feb. 20	Marosi	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 3
Budapest, Hungary, Hungarian Championships gold medal, 71 kg
+ Apr. 14	Toth	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 2
+ Apr. 15	Riba	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 2
+ Apr. 16	Marosi	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 2
+ Apr. 17	Gyokos	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
Budapest, Hungary, Dual Match Hungary vs Czechoslovakia, 71 kg
+ May 7	Smital	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
+ Oct. 16	Jozsef Marton	Budapest, Hunargy	WKO 1
+ Oct. 24	F. Nagy	Budapest, Hunargy	WKO 1
+ Oct. 30	Istvan Molnar	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
+ Nov. 20	Kollaritz	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
Leipzig and Erfurt, East Germany, Dual Match East Germany vs Hungary, 71 kg
+ Dec. 9	Rolf Caroli	Leipzig, East Germany	WPTS
+ Dec. 11	Heinz Nagel	Erfurt, East Germany	WPTS
1956
+ Mar. 31	Balazs	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
+ Apr. 1	Laszlo Bene	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 1
+ Apr. 8	Komlenecz	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
+ Apr. 11	Fazekas	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
Helsinki, Finland, Dual Match Finland vs Hungary, 71 kg
+ Apr. 22	Pertti Rapatti	Helsinki, Finland	WPTS
Stockholm, Sweden, Dual Match Sweden vs Hungary, 75 kg
+ Apr. 25	Soeren Danielsson	Stockholm, Sweden	WKO 3
Berlin, West Germany, Dual Match West Berlin vs Hungary, 71 kg
+ May 1	H. Studenmund	Berlin, West Germany	WKO 1
Klagenfurt and Dornbirn, Austria, Dual Match Austria vs Hungary, 71 kg
+ May 16	Hans Kohlegger	Klagenfurt, Austria	WAB 3
+ May 19	Kollarits	Dornbirn, Austria	WAB 1
+ May 25	Marosi	Budapest, Hungary	WPTS
+ May 26	Gerber	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 3
+ May 27	Borvari	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 2
Sofia, Bulgaria, Dual Match Bulgaria vs Hungary, 71 kg
+ June 2	Boris Georgiev	Sofia, Bulgaria	WPTS
+ June 21	Riba	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 2
+ June 22	Z. Papp	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 2
+ June 23	Borbari	Budapest, Hungary	WKO 2
Klagenfurt, Austria, Dual Match Austria vs Hungary, 71 kg
+ Aug. 22	Kindler	Klagenfurt, Austria	WKO 3
Warsaw, Poland, Warsaw Cup silver medal, 71 kg
+ Sept. 8	Michal Lukasiewicz	Warsaw, Poland	WTKO 1
- Sept. 9	Zbigniew Pietrzykowski	Warsaw, Poland	LTKO 2
Melbourne, Australia, Olympic Games gold medal, 71 kg
+ Nov. 28	Alberto Manuel Saenz	Melbourne, Australia	WKO 3
+ Nov. 30	Zbigniew Pietrzykowski	Melbourne, Australia	WPTS
+ Dec. 1	Jose Torres (PUR)	Melbourne, Australia	WPTS 2:1

Professional record

Date	Opponent	Place	Result
1957
+ May 18	Alois Brand	Cologne, Germany	W 4
+ June 15	Herbert Sowa	Dortmund, Germany	W 4
+ June 28	Gerhard Moll	Hamburg, Germany	W 6
1958
+ Oct. 17	Hugo Kohler	Vienna, Austria	KO 6
+ Dec. 15	Francois Anewy	Paris, France	KO 3
1959
+ Feb. 9	Andre Drille	Paris, France	W 10
+ Mar. 16	Jean Ruellet	Vienna, Austria	W 10
= Apr. 13	Germinal Ballarin	Paris, France	Draw 10
+ Sept. 18	Bill Tate	Vienna, Austria	KO 3
1960
+ Feb. 10	Lou Perry	Vienna, Austria	W 10
+ Sept. 23	Erich Walter	Vienna, Austria	KO 9
+ Oct. 1	Mohammed Boudib	Zagreb, Yugoslavia	KO 7
= Dec. 26	Giancarlo Garbelli	Milano, Italy	Draw 10
1961
+ Feb. 20	Sauveur Chiocca	Paris, France	W 10
+ Apr. 8	Moussa Sangaree	Vienna, Austria	W 10
+ Sept. 10	Peter Mueller	Cologne, Germany	TKO 8
+ Oct. 13	Peter Mueller	Vienna, Austria	TKO 4
+ Dec. 2	Michel Francois	Cologne, Germany	TKO 2
1962
+ Mar. 21	Ralph Jones	Vienna, Austria	W 10
+ May 16	Christian Christensen	Vienna, Austria	TKO 7
European Middleweight Title
+ Nov. 19	Hippolyte Annex	Paris, France	KO 9
European Middleweight Title
1963
+ Feb. 6	George Aldridge	Vienna, Austria	TKO 15
European Middleweight Title
+ Mar. 30	Peter Mueller	Dortmund, Germany	TKO 4
European Middleweight Title
+ May 17	Randy Sandy	Vienna, Austria	W 10
+ June 14	Charley Cotton	Cologne, Germany	KO 7
+ Dec. 6	Luis Folledo	Madrid, Spain	TKO 8
European Middleweight Title
1964
+ Mar. 13	Harry Scott	Vienna, Austria	W 10
+ July 2	Christian Christensen	Copenhagen, Denmark	KO 4
European Middleweight Title
+ Oct. 9	Mick Leahy	Vienna, Austria	W 15
European Middleweight Title

Summary

Total bouts: 29, Won: 27 (15 inside the limit), Lost: 0 (0 inside the limit), Draw: 2, NC: 0