Harry Kurschat is a retired boxer

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

 from Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, who competed in the Lightweight

Lightweight

Light-weight is a class of athletes in a particular sport, based on their weight.-Professional boxing:The lightweight division is over 130 pounds and up to 135 pounds weight class in the sport of boxing....

 division during his career as an amateur.

Amateur career

Kurschat was the German amateur lightweight champion 1953, 1954, and 1956, as well as the European amateur champion in 1955. He was the Olympic Silver Medalist at 1956 Melbourne Olympic games in the lightweight class for United Team of Germany.

Olympic results

• 1st round bye
• Defeated Celedonio Espinosa
  Celedonio Espinosa
  Celedonio Espinosa, Jr. is an Olympian, a Filipino boxer who competed in the 1954 Asian Games in Manila and took home the gold medal. He represented the Philippines in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia and bagged the bronze medal in the 1958 Asian Games staged in Tokyo, Japan.He once...
  
   (Philippines) points
• Defeated Zygmunt Milewski (Poland) KO 3
• Defeated Tony Byrne (Ireland) points
• Lost to Richard McTaggart
  Richard McTaggart
  Richard McTaggart MBE is a retired boxer from Dundee, Scotland, who competed in the Lightweight division during his career as an amateur.-Amateur career:...
  
  (Great Britain) points

External links

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