- Zygmunt Chychła
Zygmunt Chychła (born
November 6 ,1926 inDanzig ("Polish"Gdańsk ) - a boxer, who won the first, after World War II, an Olympic gold medal for Poland.In 1939 he began trainings in Polish boxing club "Gedania". During the war he lost his Gdansk citizenship, and was compulsorily incarnated to
Wehrmacht in 1944. Then he deserted in France, and moved for the 2nd Polish Army led by generalWładysław Anders in Italy. He returned to Poland in 1946.In 1947, he made his debut in boxing national team of Poland, led by a famous coach
Feliks Stamm . He started in theOlympic Games at London 1948 where he reached a quarter-final. In 1951 he won theEuropean Amateur Boxing Championships in Milan. He was chosen the best Polish Sportspersonality of the Year in a Plebiscite of the "Sport Review".Chychła won gold medal at the
1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki beating in end a representative of the Soviet Union,Sergey Shcherbakow . In road to a final, he won againstJulius Torma (Czechoslovakia), the Olympic Champion from London 1948 and the European Champion from Oslo 1949. In the same year he won again at the Plebiscite of the "Sport Review".After the Olympic Games, he found out, that ill is on tuberculosis. He decided to resign with sport, however not wanting to it lacked on Championships of Europe competitor in Warsaw 1953 Polish sport powers introduced him in mistake, claiming, that disease backed off. He won again gold medal there. Tuberculosis unrolled as a result of lack of treatment of at athlete, which caused in lungs considerable pit. Broken down, he finished in 1953 year sport career. At the beginning of 70-ties, he emigrated to Germany.
He stepped out 17 times in national team of Poland (15 fights won and 2 lost). In his career, he rolled down 263 fight, 241 won, 10 drew and 12 lost.
Awarded the Honourable Citizen of City of Gdańsk title in 2003.
Today Zygmunt Chychła lives in Senior's House in
Hamburg .Amateur career
Chychla won the welterweight gold medal at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic games.
Olympic results
*Defeated
Pierre Wouters (Belgium) 3-0
*DefeatedJosé Luis Dávalos Noriega (Mexico) 3-0
*DefeatedJúlius Torma (Czechoslovakia) 2-1
*DefeatedGünther Heidemann (West Germany) 2-1
*DefeatedSergei Shcherbakov (Soviet Union) 3-0ee also
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Boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics External links
* [http://databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=CHYCHZYG01 Olympic DB]
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