Emil Schulz
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men's Boxing | ||
Competitor for  Germany
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| Olympic Games | ||
| Silver | 1964 Tokyo | Middleweight |
Competitor for  West Germany
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| 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 winning a silver medal. He also won the bronze medal at the 1963 European Amateur Boxing Championships, representing West Germany.
Life
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 claimed 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 another victory over the East German champion Bernd Anders, for the Tokyo Olympics.
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.
Victories by Countries
- 1957 in Kaiserslautern, south-west over Scotland, point winner over S Dignan,
- 1960 in Besançon, France against FRD second round, KO defeat by Souleymane Diallo,
- 1960 in Kiev, USSR v. FRG point defeat by Valery Popenchenko,
- 1960 in Moscow, USSR v. FRG, first round KO defeat by Evgeni Feofanow,
- 1961 in Frankfurt, FRG against Italy first round knockout winner against Giovanni Pautasso,
- 1962 in Munich, FRG against Poland, point victor over Tadeusz Walasek,
- 1962 in Lagos, Nigeria v. FRG point victory over Lewis Olayinka,
- 1962 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast v. FRG point victory over Bidjan Koissy,
- 1962 in Innsbruck, Austria v. FRG point defeat by SF Rusch,
- 1963 in Wroclaw, Poland v. FRG point victory over Tadeusz Walasek,
- 1964 in Bucharest, Romania v. FRG point victory over Ion Monea,
- 1964 in Stuttgart, FRG v. Poland, draw against Lucjan Slowakiewicz,
- 1964 in Münster, FRG against England first round knockout winner against A. Moore
References
- ↑ http://www.sportal.de/sportal/generated/article/tnt_boxen/2010/03/23/16167800000.html German Sports {Portal
- ↑ http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Emil_Schulz Emil Schulz at Boxing
External links
References in Print
- Journal box sport from the years 1956 to 1965,
- BOX-ALMANAC 1920-1980, published by German Amateur Boxing Association, 1980,
- Website "www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl"