Boxing club Winterthur

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The Boxclub Winterthur is an amateur boxing club from Winterthur . The club, founded in 1930, trains in the gym of the Heiligberg school in Winterthur.

history

BC Winterthur was founded in 1930. Between 1940 and 43 M. Weidmann was Swiss champion four times in a row, and T. Barchetti was three times champion between 1942 and 45. The later Olympic participant and European Championship silver medalist Max Meier became four times Swiss welterweight champion as a member of BC Winterthur at the end of the 1950s, before moving to BC Zurich . In the 60s and early 70s, Ruedi Meier was honored for BC Winterthur, the 10-time record heavyweight champion took part in the 1964 Summer Olympics (7th place) and three European championships, but was eliminated in the quarter-finals out. In 1972 Giorgio Contini senior became Swiss middleweight champion, his son of the same name was a well-known footballer and is now active as a football coach. The former Thai boxing world champion and boxing club member Bashkim Berisha, who gained notoriety as a Dübendorfer parking lot murderer in 2004, gained negative fame .

Since November 2003 there has been another boxing club in Winterthur, the Boxunion Winterthur, which was founded by Marc Röschli, who became the Swiss lightweight champion in 1993 with BC Winterthur.

Swiss master of BC Winterthur

  • I. Barchetti (1935 - welterweight)
  • M. Weidmann (1940-1943 - welterweight)
  • T. Barchetti (1942, 1944, 1945 - middleweight)
  • H. Stucki (1954 - light middleweight)
  • HJ Odermatt (1956 - heavyweight)
  • Max Meier (1956-1959 - welterweight)
  • Ruedi Meier (1962–1964, 1967–1973 - heavyweight)
  • A. Kübler (1963, 1967 - light welterweight)
  • Giorgio Contini Sr. (1971 - middleweight)
  • Marc Röschli (1993 - lightweight)
  • Giovanni Jemma (1998 - heavyweight)
  • Butrin Rama (2008 - welterweight)
  • Gabriel Viltre-Diaz (2008, 2010 - lightweight)
  • Ewene Hansen (2017 - super heavyweight)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ News article “Murderous Blow” - “I've always been a muscle man” on swissboxing.ch. Retrieved December 8, 2012.

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