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Mar 25, 1926 Budapest, Hungary Died on 16 Oct 2003 (aged 77)
Hungarian boxer
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About László Papp
- László Papp (25 March 1926 – 16 October 2003) was a Hungarian professional boxer from Budapest.
- A southpaw, he 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.
- In his final Olympic competition, he became the first boxer in Olympic history to win three successive gold medals.
- It was a remarkable run of Olympic Boxing supremacy, in that of his 13 Olympic fights, he won 12 of them without losing a round, and dropped only a single round in his last final - to Torres.
- There would not be another triple gold medalist for 20 years, when Teófilo Stevenson won three, followed by Félix Savón as the latest one of the three men to accomplish the feat.
