Giovanni Zuddas
Italian boxer (1928–1996)
| Olympic medal record | ||
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 | 1948 London | Bantamweight |
Giovanni Battista Zuddas (1 March 1928 in Cagliari – 21 October 1996) was a bantamweight professional boxer from Italy, who won the silver medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics, losing to Tibor Csik of Hungary in the championship match.
1948 Olympic results
Zuddas competed in the bantamweight division at the 1948 London Olympics:
- Round of 32: defeated Bonifacio Zarcal (Philippines) on points
- Round of 16: defeated Jean-Marie Grenot (France) on points
- Quarterfinal: defeated Willie Lenihan (Ireland) referee stopped contest in third round
- Semifinal: defeated Alvaro Vicente (Spain) on points
- Final: lost to Tibor Csik (Hungary) on points (was awarded silver medal)[1]
Professional career
Zuddas turned professional in 1950 and fought primarily in Italy and other European countries. He held the Italian bantamweight title and fought for the title several times throughout his career. In 1959 he lost a decision to Eder Jofre, and retired the following year.
References
- ^ "Gianbattista ZUDDAS". Olympics.com. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
External links
- Boxing record for Giovanni Zuddas from BoxRec (registration required)
- DatabaseOlympics.com profile
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1924 – 2010: up to 54 kg
- 1924: Jean Ces (FRA)
- 1925: Archie Rule (ENG)
- 1927: Kurt Dalchow (GER)
- 1928: Vittorio Tamagnini (ITA)
- 1930: János Széles (HUN)
- 1932: Hans Ziglarski (GER)
- 1934: István Enekes (HUN)
- 1937: Ulderico Sergo (ITA)
- 1939: Ulderico Sergo (ITA)
1942: Arturo Paoletti (ITA)- 1947: László Bogacs (HUN)
- 1949: Giovanni Zuddas (ITA)
- 1951: Vincenzo dall'Osso (ITA)
- 1953: Zenon Stefaniuk (POL)
- 1955: Zenon Stefaniuk (POL)
- 1957: Oleg Grigoryev (URS)
- 1959: Horst Rascher (FRG)
- 1961: Sergey Sivko (URS)
- 1963: Oleg Grigoryev (URS)
- 1965: Oleg Grigoryev (URS)
- 1967: Nicolae Gîju (ROM)
- 1969: Aurel Dumitrescu (ROM)
- 1971: Tibor Badari (HUN)
- 1973: Aldo Cosentino (FRA)
- 1975: Viktor Rybakov (URS)
- 1977: Stefan Förster (GDR)
- 1979: Nikolay Chrapzov (URS)
- 1981: Viktor Miroshnichenko (URS)
- 1983: Yuri Alexandrov (URS)
- 1985: Ljubiša Simić (YUG)
- 1987: Aleksandar Khristov (BUL)
- 1989: Serafim Todorov (BUL)
- 1991: Serafim Todorov (BUL)
- 1993: Raimkul Malakhbekov (RUS)
- 1996: István Kovács (HUN)
- 1998: Serhiy Danylchenko (UKR)
- 2000: Agasi Agaguloglu (TUR)
- 2002: Khavazhi Khatsigov (BLR)
- 2004: Gennady Kovalev (RUS)
- 2006: Ali Aliyev (RUS)
- 2008: Luke Campbell (ENG)
- 2010: Eduard Abzalimov (RUS)
- 2011: Veaceslav Gojan (MDA)
- 2013: John Joe Nevin (IRL)
- 2015: Michael Conlan (IRL)
- 2017: Peter McGrail (ENG)
- 2019: Kurt Walker (IRL)
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