Henryk Dampc

Henryk Dampc (born April 12, 1935 in Wejherowo , † March 24, 2000 in Gdańsk ) was a Polish boxer . He was vice European champion in 1959 in Lucerne in the light middleweight division.

Career

Henryk Dampc started boxing at Gryfia Wejherowo . His first coach was Kazimierz Switka. As early as 1953 he moved to the Wybrzeże Gdańsk sports club , where he was trained by Brunon Karnath and to which he belonged until the end of his career in 1970. At a height of 1.81 meters, he boxed mostly middleweight (up to 75 kg body weight), but trained in the light middleweight (up to 71 kg body weight) at important championships. This was mainly due to the fact that he had two very strong competitors in the middleweight division in Tadeusz Walasek and Lucjan Slovakiewicz in Poland . Henryk Dampc had two boxing brothers, Edmund also counted among the Polish top class.

1958 Henryk Dampc was the first Polish light middleweight champion and in 1959 he was Polish middleweight runner-up behind Tadeusz Walasek. In 1959 he was used at the European Championships in Lucerne, Switzerland. He started it in the light middleweight division and won over Iwan Sobolew from the USSR , Ulrich Kienast from the Federal Republic of Germany and Rolf Caroli from the GDR on points. In the final battle he faced Nino Benvenuti from Italy . This fight ended with a narrow victory on points (3-2 judges' votes) in favor of Benvenuti. Many boxing experts who attended this fight saw it as a misjudgment and Dampc as the winner.

In 1960 Henryk Dampc competed in the Olympic Games in Rome. In the light middleweight division he won points over Leif Hansen from Denmark and Michael Reid from Ireland . In the quarter-finals, however, he surprisingly lost to the British William Fisher and only came in 4th place.

Henryk Dampc also competed in the 1959, 1961 and 1962 police championships of the Warsaw Pact states. In 1959 and 1961 he won the competition in the light middle and middle weight. In 1962 he had to admit defeat to Romanian Ion Monea in the middleweight division.

In 1962 he was behind Tadeusz Walasek Polish runner-up in the middleweight division and in 1964 he lost at the Polish championships against the same boxer in the semi-finals and came in 3rd place.

After 1963, Henryk Dampc ended his international career. For his club Wybrzeże Gdańsk he was at the start until 1970. He contested a total of 354 fights in his career and landed 272 wins.

After his boxing career, during which he was employed by the police, Henryk Dampc went to sea.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, EM = European Championship, Hm = light middleweight, Wed = middleweight, up to 71 kg or 75 kg body weight)

• 1958, 1st place , intern. Tournament in Łódź , Hm, with victories over Bogdan Guzinski u. Kazimierz Sobieski, bde. Poland ;
• 1959, 2nd place , EM in Lucerne , Hm, with victories over Iwan Sobolew, USSR , Ulrich Kienast , FRG a . Rolf Caroli , GDR a . a loss to Nino Benvenuti , Italy ;
• 1959, 1st place , 1st championship of the police of the countries of the Warsaw Pact in Berlin (East), Hm, with victories over Georgi Alpiew, Bulgaria , Chorusovsky, CSSR a . L. Graf, GDR;
• 1960, 5th place , OS in Rome , Hm, with victories over Leif Hansen, Denmark a . Michael Reid, Ireland a . a loss to William Fisher , Great Britain ;
• 1961, 1st place , 2nd championship of the police forces of the Warsaw Pact countries in Bucharest , Wed, with a victory in the final over Grabe, GDR;
• 1962, 2nd place , 3rd championship of the police forces of the Warsaw Pact countries in Łódź, Wed, with a point defeat in the final against Ion Monea , Romania

Polish championships

• 1958, 1st place, Hm,
• 1959, 2nd place, Wed, after a defeat in the final against Tadeusz Walasek ,
• 1961, 9th place, Wed, after a loss in the round of 16 against Tadeusz Walasek,
• 1962, 2nd place, Wed, after a loss (injury) without a fight in the semifinals against Tadeusz Walasek,
• 1964, 3rd place, Wed, after a loss in the semi-finals against Tadeusz Walasek

International battles

• 1955 in Wrocław , Poland against Romania (juniors), Hw, point winner over Mihai Stojan,
• 1956 in Bucharest , Romania against Poland, Wed, point defeat against Dumitru Gheorghiu,
• 1958 in Bydgoszcz , Poland against Yugoslavia , Hm, points win over Nenad Maric,
• 1958 in Belgrade , Yugoslavia against Poland, Wed, point defeat against Stevan Lackovic,
• 1958 in Wrocław, Poland against Hungary , Hm, points win over Janos Erdelyi,
• 1959 in Essen , Germany against Poland, Hasm, point defeat against Ulrich Kienast ,
• 1960 in Łódź , Poland against FRG, Hm, victory over Jupp Elze ,
• 1960 in Gdańsk , Poland against GDR , Hm, victory over Rolf Innisch,
• 1962 in Berlin (East), Wed, points victory over Schäfer,
• 1962 in Łódź, Poland against Hungary, Wed, point defeat against Laszlo Feher

swell

• Box Sport magazine
• Website "www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl",
• Website "www.sport-komplett.de",
• Website "www.pkol.pl"

Web links

- 12k - portrait of Henryk Da, pc in Polish