Arturo Rodríguez Jurado

Arturo Rodríguez Jurado

Arturo Rodríguez Jurado (born May 26, 1907 , † November 22, 1982 ) was an Argentine boxer . He was an Olympic heavyweight champion in Amsterdam in 1928 .

Career

Arturo Rodriguez Jurado did boxing and rugby as a teenager. When the Argentine Luis Angel Firpo caused a sensation as a professional boxer in the United States at the beginning of the 1920s and even boxed for the world championship, he took this as a model and concentrated fully on boxing. He became a member of the "Club Atletico" San Isidro .

As a 17-year-old he took part in the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris . It was probably due to his inexperience that he lost his first fight against the Dane Thyge Petersen on points there.

Four years later he competed again at the Olympic Games . In Amsterdam he started in the heavyweight division (at that time over 79.6 kg body weight). He won there over the Irishman Matthew Flanagan in the 1st round by knockout. Then defeated Sam Olij from the Netherlands and Michael Michaelsen from Denmark on points and defeated Nils Arvid Ramm from Sweden by knockout in the first round. He was thus Olympic champion .

Further results from Arturo Rodriguez Jurado are not known. He did not take part in the Pan American Games in 1925 and 1926. Professionally he worked as an agricultural engineer. He never became a professional boxer.

swell

• Box Almanach 1920–1980 , publisher of the German Amateur Boxing Association, 1980,
• Website "www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl"

Web links

• Image of the Argentine boxing relay at the 1924 Olympic Games
• Arturo Rodríguez Jurado in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )