About László Papp
László Papp (25 March 1926 – 16 October 2003) was a Hungarian professional boxer from Budapest. He was left-handed and won gold medals in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, and the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia. In his final Olympic competition he became the first boxer in Olympic history to win three successive gold medals. He won 12 of his 13 Olympic fights without losing a round, dropping only one, in his last Olympic final, to American boxer José Torres. There was not another triple gold medalist for 20 years, when Cuba's Teófilo Stevenson won three, followed by another Cuban Félix Savón as the third of the three men to accomplish the feat. == Amateur career == Papp was an Olympic gold medalist three times, at middleweight in London in 1948, then as a light middleweight in Helsinki in 1952 and in Melbourne in 1956. Papp also was the European amateur middleweight champion as a middleweight in 1949 at Oslo and at light middleweight at Milan in 1951. He scored 55 first-round knockouts as an amateur, his record was 301-12-6. === Olympic results === 1948 London (England) Defeated Valfrid Resko (Finland) KO 2 Defeated Jean Welter (Luxembourg) KO 1 Defeated Auguste Cavignac (Belgium) KO 1 Defeated Ivano Fontana (Italy) 3-0 Defeated John Wright (England) 3-0 1952 Helsinki (Finland) Defeated Ellsworth Webb (United States) KO 2 Defeated Charlie Chase (Canada) KO 2 Defeated Petar Stankoff Spassoff (Bulgaria) 3-0 Defeated Eladio Oscar Herrera (Argentina) 3-0 Defeated Theunis Jacobus van Schalkwyk (South Africa) 3-0 1956 Melbourne (Australia) Defeated Alberto Saenz (Argentina) KO 3 Defeated Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (Poland) 3-0 Defeated José Torres (USA) 2-1 == Professional career == Papp, despite having hand trouble, turned professional in 1957 and immediately began rising in the Middleweight ranks. However, Hungary was a Communist country at the time and professional boxing was not permitted.
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