Emil Schulz
Emil Schulz ( born May 25, 1938 in Kaiserslautern, † March 22, 2010 ) was a German boxer. He was winner of the silver medal at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo in the middleweight division.
Career
Emil Schulz began as a teenager in 1951 in the Boxabteilung of the 1st FC Kaiserslautern with the boxes. He developed relatively quickly at a good boxer, but came only at senior level to the first successes in the southwest of Germany. In 1956 he was first Association champion Southwest and won that title without interruption until 1964 in the weight classes half Welter to medium. He was southpaw and had a dreaded left hand shock.
In 1957 he started in the excretion of DABV for the European Championship in the Welterweight, but was subject to multiple German champion Karl Wagner from Radolfzell on points. 1960 was first used in countries fighting Emil Schulz of DABV. But he had to pay even belonging teaching money because he lost it against Frenchman Souleymane Diallo, a later peak professional boxer and the Soviet athletes Ewgeni Feofanow by knockout, but went with the later Olympic champion Valeri Popentschenko from the USSR over the full period of struggle.
In November 1960 Emil Schulz won his first German championship in Cologne middleweight title. He defeated in the finals Paul Hogh from Stuttgart sure on points.
German middleweight champion, he was also in 1961 with a points victory over Norbert driver from Herten / Westphalia. He was then employed at the European Championships in Belgrade and won there in the second round on J. Mammers from the Netherlands on points. In the quarterfinals, but he had against the experienced Yugoslavs Dragoslav Jakovljevic insert a concise point defeat and retired. He finished in a good 5th place.
1962 won Emil Schulz in Iserlohn by a points victory over Norbert driver again the German middleweight championship. This year, no international championships were held. But in an international match between Germany and Poland in Munich he had a smooth point victory over the reigning European champion at middleweight Tadeusz Walasek.
On May 4, 1963 Emil Schulz won in Freiburg im Breisgau by a points victory over Ewald Wichert from Hamm his fourth league titles. In the subsequent European Championships in Moscow he met in the first round again to the Dutchman J. Mammers he in the 2nd round by K. defeated this time o. In the quarterfinals, he also achieved a knockout victory over the representatives of the GDR Bernd Anders. In the semifinals, but was defeated Emil Schulz against Ion Monea from Romania on points. By reaching the semi-finals he won a European Championship bronze medal.
1964 Emil Schulz won in the German Championship again Ewald Wichert on points and qualified in the excretion of the total German Olympic team by a new victory over the East German champion Bernd Anders from TSC Berlin for the Olympic Games in Tokyo. In Tokyo, he won in the second round by a knockout in the second round of the British William Stack and defeated in the quarter - and semifinals Ion Monea and Francesco Valle from Italy on points. In the final he faced Valeri Popentschenko, of which he was caught off guard right in the first round and went ko. He won the Olympic silver medal by reaching the final.
In the spring of 1965 ill Emil Schulz difficult. Although he recovered again, but could not return to the boxing ring.
On 22 March 2010, Emil Schulz died in Westpfalz -Klinikum, Kaiserslautern.
Honors
- Silver Bay Leaf
Countries struggles of Emil Schulz
German championships with Emil Schulz (Final Results )
Swell
- Trade journal Box Sport from 1956 to 1965
- BOX- ALMANAC 1920-1980, Editor German amateur boxing Association, 1980,
- Website " www.amateur - boxing.strefa.pl "