| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men's Boxing | ||
| Competitor for Germany | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
| Silver | 1964 Tokyo | Middleweight |
| Competitor for West Germany | ||
| European Championships | ||
| Bronze | 1963 Moscow | Middleweight |
Emil Schulz (25 May 1938 – 22 March 2010) was a German boxer and five-time amateur champion, who lost only 21 of his 223 fights.[1]
He competed for the Unified Team of Germany in the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan in the middleweight division wining a silver medal. He also won the bronze medal at the 1963 European Amateur Boxing Championships, representing West Germany.
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Schulz began boxing as a teenager in 1951, he developed quickly and in 1956 he became the first Southwest champion of Germany, retaining this title until 1964. In 1957 he boxed in the European Welterweight Championship, before losing to Karl Wagner from Radolfzell on points.
In 1960 Schulz first boxed internationally as part of the German Amateur Boxing Association - German: Deutscher Amateur Box Verband (DABV) In his first bout, he lost to Frenchman Souleymane Diallo, a future top professional boxer, then to Soviet, Evgeni Feofanow by a Knockout, but beat the future Olympic champion Valery Popenchenko from the USSR.
In November 1960 Schulz won his first German championship in Cologne, in the middleweight division, beating Paul Hogh from Stuttgart in the final on points. In 1961 he won in another points victory over Norbert Weinrauter. He then fought at the European Amateur Boxing Championships in Belgrade with a first round knockout victory over J. Mammern from the Netherlands. In the quarterfinals, he faced the experienced Yugoslav, Dragoslav Jakovljevic, losing by a narrow points decision but claiming 5th Place.
In 1962 Schulz won in Iserlohn with a single point victory over the German Norbert Weinrauter, the middleweight champion. As there were no international championships this year the next time Schulz fought was in an international match at Munich, between the Federal Republic of Germany and Poland. Schulz managed a points victory over the reigning European champion Tadeusz Walasek, in the middleweight division.
On the 4 May 1963 Schulz won a one point victory in Freiburg over Ewald Wichert from Hamburg, his fourth consecutive title. During the subsequent European Championship in Moscow, he again met J. Mammern, winning by a second round Knockout. In the quarterfinals he cliamed another knockout victory over the representative of the German Democratic Republic, Bernd Anders, from TSC Berlin, but lost to Ion Monea from Romania on points in the semifinals. By reaching the semi-final he won a European Championship bronze medal.
1964 Emil Schulz won the German championship again with another points victory over Ewald Wichert and qualified for the United Team of Germany Olympic team with a another victory over the East German champion Bernd Anders, for the Tokyo Olympics.
In the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics, he won his first bout, defeating British boxer William Stack and 1964 ABA Middleweight Champion in a knockout after 46 seconds, before beating Ion Monea in the second set of matches. He then beat Francesco Valle of Italy on points in the quarters. In the final he lost to Valery Popenchenko after the referee stopped the contest (RSC) but winning an Olympic silver medal foe Germany (EUA).[2]
In the spring of 1965, Emil Schulz became seriously ill and although he recovered, he never returned to the ring.
On 22 March 2010 Emil Schulz died in Westpfalz Hospital in Kaiserslautern, he was 72 years old.