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László Papp (25 March 1926 – 16 October 2003) was a Hungarian professional boxer from Budapest. He was left-handed and won gold medals in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki , and the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne , Australia.
Since 28 May 2004, the arena wears the name of Hungarian boxing great László Papp and is officially known as Papp László Budapest Sports Arena. [ 1 ] The building has a total weight of 200,000 tons and contains 50,000 tons of concrete, 2,300 tons of steel structure, more than 11,000,000 bolts and several kilometres of cable.
All bouts consisted of three periods where the boxers received points for every successful punch they land on their opponent's head or upper body. The boxer with the most points at the end of the bouts wins. If a boxer is knocked to the ground and cannot get up before the referee counts to 10, then the bout is over and the opponent wins by ...
László Papp: 1956 Melbourne: Boxing: Men's Light middleweight: 61. László Fábián János Urányi: 1956 Melbourne: Canoeing: Men's K-2 10000 m: 62. Rudolf Kárpáti: 1956 Melbourne: Fencing: Men's Sabre individual: 63. Aladár Gerevich Jenő Hámori Rudolf Kárpáti Attila Keresztes Pál Kovács Dániel Magay: 1956 Melbourne: Fencing: Men's ...
László Papp Hungary: Theunis van Schalkwyk South Africa: Eladio Herrera Argentina Boris Tishin Soviet Union: 1956 Melbourne details: László Papp Hungary: José Torres United States: John McCormack Great Britain Zbigniew Pietrzykowski Poland: 1960 Rome details: Wilbert McClure United States: Carmelo Bossi Italy: William Fisher Great Britain ...
Many of them gathered in the boxing arena when thirty-year-old Laszlo Papp of Hungary won a record third gold medal by beating José Torres for the light-middleweight championship. A few days later, the crowd was with the Hungarian water polo team in its hotly contested and emotionally charged match against the Soviet Union which took place ...
The men's heavyweight boxing competition at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held from 21 September to 30 September at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre. Félix Savón became the third boxer to win three consecutive Olympic gold medals, along with his countryman Teofilo Stevenson, and Hungary's Laszlo Papp. Shortly after the ...
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