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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.
Like all Olympic boxing events, the competition was a straight single-elimination tournament. The competition began with a preliminary round on 7 August, where the number of competitors was reduced to 16, and concluded with a final on 13 August.
The men's light middleweight event was part of the boxing programme at the 1984 Summer Olympics. The weight class allowed boxers of up to 71 kilograms to compete. The competition was held from 29 July to 11 August 1984. 34 boxers from 34 nations competed. [1]
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.
He lost in the final to László Papp of Hungary. ... Wright won the 1948 Amateur Boxing Association British middleweight title, when boxing for the Royal Navy. [1] [2]
László Papp: Hungary 3 – 0 Petar Stankoff Spassoff: Bulgaria Boris Tishin: Soviet Union 3 – 0 Paulo de Jesus Cavalheiro: Brazil Semi-final (August 1) Theunis Jacobus van Schalkwyk: South Africa 3 – 0 Boris Tishin: Soviet Union László Papp: Hungary 3 – 0 Eladio Oscar Herrera: Argentina Final (August 2) László Papp: Hungary 3 – 0
Budapest Sportcsarnok was an indoor arena in Budapest, Hungary. The arena had a seating capacity for 12,500 spectators and opened in 1982. It was primarily used for basketball, figure skating, volleyball and other indoor sporting events until it burned down on December 15, 1999. [1] [2] It was replaced by the current László Papp Arena.
Throughout the Olympics, Hungarian athletes were cheered by fans from Australia and other countries. 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.