Giulio Saraudi

Saraudi, Giulio
Data
Birth Name	Saraudi, Giulio
Weight class	Light heavyweight
nationality	Italian
birthday	July 3, 1938
place of birth	Civitavecchia
Date of death	April 20, 2005
style	Left-hand boom
Combat Statistics
Struggles	14th
Victories	9
Knockout victories	4th
Defeats	1
draw	3

Giulio Saraudi (born July 3, 1938 in Civitavecchia , † April 20, 2005 ibid) was an Italian boxer . He was European amateur boxer champion in 1961 and winner of a bronze medal at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome , each in the light heavyweight division.

Career

Amateur career

Giulio Saraudi started boxing as a teenager. At the age of 20 he represented Italy for the first time in an international match and lost it in Belgrade in the light heavyweight division against the Yugoslav Ahmet Bogunic on points. In 1959 he started at the European championship of amateurs in Lucerne in the light heavyweight division. He won there in the second round over Willi Kopischke from the Federal Republic of Germany and in the quarter-finals over Johnny Ould from England on points. In the semifinals he was defeated by Gheorghe Negrea from Romania on points and finished 3rd.

Giulio Saraudi was a member of the Italian armed forces. He therefore started in 1960 at the so-called CISM military world championships in Wiesbaden and won the light heavyweight title there. He won this title in 1961 in Fort Dix in the United States by winning points over the American Hunter and in 1964 in Tunis with a victory over the Egyptian Shokweir.

In 1960 he was also used at the Olympic Games in Rome . He won there in the light heavyweight division over Muhammad Safdar from Pakistan and Rafael Gargiulo from Argentina on points. In the semifinals he lost to the three-time Polish European champion Zbigniew Pietrzykowski and was eliminated. By reaching the semi-finals, however, he had already won an Olympic bronze medal .

At the European Championships in Belgrade in 1961, Giulio Saraudi took advantage of a good draw and entered the final against Gheorghe Negrea with a demolition win in the 2nd round over Tom Menzies from Scotland and a point win over Zdzislaw Jozefowicz from Poland, which he followed this time Could defeat points and thus became European champion .

Giulio Saraudi was the Italian amateur boxer light heavyweight champion in 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963 and 1964. From 1963, however, the Italian boxing association used Cosimo Pinto in the light heavyweight division . Pinto was Olympic champion in Tokyo in 1964. Giulio Saraudi joined the professional boxer in 1965.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Hs = light heavyweight, then up to 81 kg body weight)

• 1959, 3rd place , EM in Lucerne , Hs, behind Zbigniew Pietrzykowski , Poland and Gheorghe Negrea , Romania , together with Lew Senkin , USSR ;

• 1960, 1st place , CISM military world championship in Wiesbaden , Hs;

• 1960, bronze medal , OS in Rome , Hs, behind Cassius Clay , USA a . Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, together with Anthony Madigan , Australia ;

• 1961, 1st place , EM in Belgrade , Hs, in front of Gheorghe Negrea, Zdzislaw Jozefowicz , Poland a. Jack Bodell , England ;

• 1961, 1st place , CISM Military World Championships in Fort Dix , USA, Hs, ahead of Hunter, USA;

• 1964, 1st place , CISM Military World Cup in Tunis , Hs, in front of Shokweir, Egypt

International battles

• 1958 in Belgrade , Yugoslavia against Italy , Hs, point defeat against Ahmet Bogunic,
• 1959 in Bologna , Italy against Yugoslavia, Hs, points winner over Nikola Popovic,
• 1961 in Frankfurt am Main , Germany against Italy, Hs, points winner over Kurt Morwinsky ,
• 1962 in Cagliari , Italy against Spain , Hs, techn. KO winner 2nd round over Penalver

Profile career

Giulio Saraudi's professional career was unspectacular. He played only 14 fights from 1965 to 1968, of which he lost one. He fought his first fight on January 22, 1965 in Rome , in which he defeated his compatriot Alberto Grandolini by technical knockout in the third round. On May 14, 1966 he won in the Deutschlandhalle in Berlin against the German Horst Benedens after eight rounds on points. On December 2, 1966, he defeated another German, Jürgen Blin from Hamburg , on points at the Palazzo dello Sport in Rome .

On December 2, 1966, he fought in Rome against the ex-European light heavyweight champion Giulio Rinaldi . This fight was stopped in the 5th round without evaluation. On April 24, 1967 Giulio Saraudi lost in Nottingham against heavyweight Johnny Prescott, who was not among the very first English class, on points. Then he only denied the fight against the American Eddie Roosevelt on January 19, 1968 in Rome, which he won on points.

Giulio Saraudi did not contest championship fights during his professional career.

swell

• Box Sport magazine from 1958 to 1968,
• Box Almanach 1920 - 1980 , published by the German Amateur Boxing Association, 1980,
• Website "www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl",
• Website "www.boxrec.com"

Web link

• Fight record by Giulio Saraudi as a professional boxer
• Giulio Saraudi in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )