Emil Schulz

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Emil Schulz
Emil Schulz at the 1964 Olympics
Personal information
Born25 May 1938
Kaiserslautern, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Died22 March 2010 (aged 71)
Kaiserslautern, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
SportBoxing
Club1. FC Kaiserslautern
Medal record
Representing  
Germany
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1964 Tokyo Middleweight
Representing  West Germany
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1963 Moscow Middleweight

Emil Schulz (25 May 1938 – 22 March 2010) was a

United Team of Germany at the 1964 Olympics in the middleweight division and won a silver medal. He also won a bronze medal at the 1963 European Amateur Boxing Championships, representing West Germany.[2]

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 1960 Schulz first boxed internationally as part of the German Amateur Boxing Association (Deutscher Amateur Box Verband, DABV). In his first bout, he lost to Souleymane Diallo, a future professional boxer, then to Soviet Evgeny Feofanov by a knockout, but beat another Soviet and the future Olympic champion

Valery Popenchenko
.

In November 1960 Schulz won his first German championship in

Dragoslav Jakovljevic and lost by a narrow points decision, thus finishing in 5th place.[5]

In 1962 Schulz won in

Federal Republic of Germany and Poland. Schulz managed a points victory over the reigning European champion Tadeusz Walasek
, in the middleweight division.

On 4 May 1963 Schulz won a one-point victory in

Freiburg over Ewald Wichert from Hamburg, his fourth consecutive title.[2][6] During the subsequent European Championship in Moscow, he again met J. Mammers, winning by a second-round knockout. In the quarterfinals he claimed another knockout victory over Bernd Anders, but lost to Ion Monea from Romania on points in the semifinals, and thus finished third.[7]

In 1964 Schulz won the German championship again with another points victory over Ewald Wichert

ABA Middleweight Champion William Stack after 46 seconds. He won his second and third bouts on points, but in the final lost to Valery Popenchenko.[2][9]

In the spring of 1965, Emil Schulz became seriously ill and although he recovered, he never returned to the boxing ring. He died aged 71 in Westpfalz Hospital in Kaiserslautern.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Olympia-Zweiter Emil Schulz gestorben. sportal.de. 23 March 2010
  2. ^ a b c d e Emil Schulz. sports-reference.com
  3. ^ "FRG National Championships – Cologne – November 6 1960". amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  4. ^ "39.FRG National Championships – West Berlin – November 7-11, 1961". amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  5. ^ "14.European Championships – Belgrade, Yugoslavia – June 3–10 1961". amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  6. ^ "FRG National Championships – Freiburg – May 4 1963". amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  7. ^ "European Championships – Moscow, Soviet Union – May 26 – June 2 1963". amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  8. ^ "FRG National Championships - Munich - April 13-18 1964". amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  9. ^ Emil Schulz. boxrec.com
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