Arturo RodrÃguez
Arturo Rodríguez Jurado ( born May 26, 1907 † 22 November 1982) was an Argentine boxer. He was Olympic champion in 1928 in Amsterdam in the heavyweight division.
Career
Arturo Rodriguez Jurado operating as a youth boxing and rugby. When at the beginning of the 1920s, the Argentine Luis Angel Firpo in the United States made a splash as a professional boxer, and even boxed for the world championship, he took this as a model and focused fully on the boxes. He was a member of the " Club Atletico ," San Isidro.
Even as a 17 -year-old, he took part in Paris at the Olympic Games in 1924. It was probably attributed to his inexperience to be equal lost his first fight against the Danes Thyge Petersen on points there.
Four years later he was again at the Olympic Games at the start. In Amsterdam he started doing in the heavyweight division (then about 79.6 kg of body weight). He won there over the Irishman Matthew Flanagan in the 1st round by KO. Defeated then. Olij Sam from the Netherlands and Michael Michaelsen from Denmark on points and defeated in the final battle Nils Arvid Ramm from Sweden by KO in the 1st round He was thus Olympic champion.
More results from Arturo Rodriguez Jurado are not known. At the Pan American Games in 1925 and 1926, he did not participate. Professionally, he worked as an agricultural engineer. Professional boxer, he has never been.
Swell
- Box eV Almanac 1920-1980, published by German amateur boxing association, 1980,
- Website " www.amateur - boxing.strefa.pl "