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Willy Kaiser (16 January 1912 – 24 July 1986) was a German boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Kaiser was born in Pudewitz, Province of Posen, German Empire. He won the gold medal in the flyweight class after winning the final against Gavino Matta in 1936.
Below is the record of Willy Kaiser, a German flyweight boxer who competed at the 1936 Berlin Olympics:
Shamil Altaevich Sabirov is a retired Russian light-flyweight boxer. He won gold medals at the 1979 European Championships and 1980 Olympics, becoming the only boxing champion from the Soviet Union at the Moscow Olympics.
Ivailo Marinov is a Bulgarian boxer of Muslim Romani ancestry, who won the bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in light flyweight, and the gold medal in the same category at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Petar Lesov is a former Bulgarian boxer, who won the Flyweight Gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He is a two-time European champion in the flyweight division. Lesov is currently a boxing coach.
Orlando Martínez was a Cuban bantamweight boxer, who won the gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Three years later he captured the gold at the 1975 Pan American Games. Orlando was awarded a hotly disputed 3–2 split decision over Great Britain's George Turpin in the 1972 Munich Olympics semifinal before coasting to a comfortable points win over future professional world bantamweight champion Alfonso Zamora in the final to win the division's gold medal.
Pentti Olavi Hämäläinen was a Finnish boxer. He competed at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and won a gold and a bronze medal, respectively. He won two more bronze medals at European championships in 1951 and 1955. Domestically he won six Finnish titles between 1951 and 1956, two in flyweight, two in bantamweight and two in featherweight division. After the 1956 Olympics he turned professional and won five consecutive bouts. He lost his sixth bout in 1959 and retired from boxing, after which he worked as a mechanic and a policeman. Four of his brothers also competed in boxing at the national level. Pentti Hämäläinen died in 1984, aged 54, of undisclosed causes.
Antal Kocsis was a Hungarian boxer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1928 he won the gold medal in the flyweight class after winning the final against Armand Apell of France. He was born in Budapest-Kispest and died in Titusville, United States. His character plays a small but memorable role in Vilmos Kondor's 2012 novel Budapest Noir.
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Gavino Matta was an Italian boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Jean Despeaux was a French boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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Charles Catterall was a South African boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Louis Daniel Laurie was an American professional boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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Fernando Atzori was an Italian flyweight boxer who won a gold medal at the 1964 Olympics. In the final, he defeated Artur Olech of Poland, despite suffering an eye injury. After the Olympics, he turned professional and won the European title in 1967. Atzori defended it nine times before losing it in 1972. He then regained it and lost again in 1973. Atzori retired from the ring in 1975.
Edgar Basel was a boxer from Germany, who won the silver medal in the flyweight division at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
Martinus "Tinus" Lambillion was a Dutch boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Kaj Frederiksen was a Danish boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Alfredo Cipriano Carlomagno is an Argentine former boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. In 1936 he finished fourth in the flyweight class. He lost in his semifinal to Willy Kaiser and was not able to compete in the bronze-medal bout with Louis Laurie.
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