Henry Loubscher

Henry Loubscher ( born August 8, 1936 in Germiston, South Africa ) is a former South African boxer. He was winner of the bronze medal in the light welterweight at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne.

Career

Henry Loubscher began as a teenager with boxing and was in 1955 the first time South African champion in the amateur boxers in the lightweight (then to 60 kg body weight). This title he repeated in 1956.

In 1956 he represented his country then at the Olympic Games in Melbourne. He was there at his first appearance at an international championship good performance and won the Light Welterweight (then to 63.5 kg of body weight) in the second round on Leslie Mason from Canada to points and hit the quarter-finals and the U.S. Master Joseph Shaw on points. In the semifinals he met the European champions and hot favorites Vladimir Jengibarjan from the USSR. He lost that fight, in which he to "8" had to the ground once in the second round on points. But by reaching the semi-final he had already won a bronze medal.

1957 won " Hennie ," as he was known among friends, the South African Championships welterweight and won in 1958 at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, also in the light welterweight. He won it on Raymond Galante from Canada by KO in the 2nd round and about Robert Kane from Scotland on points.

In 1959, Henry Loubscher South African welterweight champion (then to 67 kg body weight). This title he won also in 1961 and 1964. In 1960 he started at the Olympic Games in Rome. In the welterweight he showed good fights like four years ago. He beat the Hungarians Söbök and the Australian Desmond Duguid on points, before he lost in the quarterfinals two times European champion Leszek Drogosz from Poland on points, which he narrowly missed a medal ranking, finishing in 5th place with three other boxers.

This start of a South African athlete at the 1960 Olympic Games was the rest of last for many years because the South African athletes were excluded 1964-1988 because of the apartheid policies of their government from participating in the Olympic Games.

Henry Loubscher was in his boxers career businessman. Professional boxer, he has never been. In 2006 he celebrated in his hometown of North World, Johannesburg, in excellent health his 70th birthday.

Swell

  • Trade journal Box Sport from 1956 to ö1960,
  • Website " sports123.com "
  • South Africans
  • Boxer ( South Africa)
  • Olympian (South Africa)
  • Born in 1936
  • Man
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