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.
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