Feliks Stamm

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Grave of Feliks Stamm at Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw.
Grave of Feliks Stamm at Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw.

Felix Papa Stamm (14 December 1901, Kościan – 2 April 1976, Warsaw) was a prominent Polish boxing coach.

In 1923-1926, he was a boxer at the club Pentatlon in Poznań. He rolled down 13 official fights (11 won, 1 drew, 1 loss) as well as about 30 show fights. Then he became a boxing coach (i.e. he helped foreign coaches to prepare Polish representatives to the first official interstate match Poland vs. Austria in 1928).

From 1932, he was a lecturer at Central Institute of Physical Education in Warsaw (today's Academy of Physical Education in Warsaw). In 1936, he became an independent coach of Polish boxing national team. As a coach, he participated seven times in the Olympic Games (from 1936 to 1968), and 14th times in European Amateur Boxing Championships. He was a tutor and coach of tens of prominent boxers, champions as well as Olympic and Europe medallists. To the most superb they belong: Mieczysław Forlański, Szapsel Rotholc, Tadeusz Rogalski, Witold Majchrzycki, Edmund Sobkowiak, Franciszek Szymura, Henryk Chmielewski, Józef Pisarski, Aleksander Polus, Antoni Czortek, Antoni Kolczyński, Aleksy Antkiewicz, Zygmunt Chychła, Zenon Stefaniuk, Leszek Drogosz, Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, Tadeusz Walasek, Kazimierz Paździor, Jerzy Adamski, Józef Grudzień, Jerzy Kulej, Marian Kasprzyk, Jan Szczepański.

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