Herbert Runge

Herbert Runge
Data
Birth Name	Herbert Runge
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	German
birthday	January 23, 1913
place of birth	Elberfeld
Date of death	March 11, 1986
Place of death	Wuppertal
Combat Statistics
Struggles	25th
Victories	5
Knockout victories	1
Defeats	13/14
draw	6th
No value	0/1

Herbert Runge (born January 23, 1913 in Elberfeld , † March 11, 1986 in Wuppertal) was a German boxer .

amateur

Herbert Runge learned boxing at the Elberfelder Boxclub . Between 1935 and 1943 he was eight times German champion in the highest weight class, the heavyweight. In 1940 and 1944 Hein ten Hoff won the title.

In the 1930s he was awarded three medals at the European amateur championships: in 1934 in Budapest and in 1937 in Milan he took second place in each case, and in 1939 in Dublin he was third. However, he achieved his greatest success at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin , where he won the heavyweight gold medal. In the final, he defeated the Argentine Guillermo Lovell on points.

professional

After the Second World War , Runge tried his hand at the professional camp from 1946 to 1949, but was not very successful and won only five of his 26 fights. He boxed four times against Richard Grupe , the father of Norbert Grupe : He was able to make two fights a draw, he lost the other two matches. Against Hein ten Hoff he lost three times, including in his only title fight as a professional, on June 3, 1949 in the fight for the German heavyweight championship. Furthermore, he lost to Arno Kölblin and in his last professional fight against Heinz Neuhaus .

Commemoration

An Olympic oak in the Wuppertal stadium at the zoo still reminds of the only German heavyweight Olympic champion. It is located on the southeast side of the stadium, where it stands out as the only oak in a birch and beech forest. A plaque on the fence that separates the forest from the stadium's guest area commemorates the deceased boxer.

Web links

Commons : Herbert Runge  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Herbert Runge in the BoxRec database
• Herbert Runge in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Olympic oak and Herbert Runge memorial plaque. Retrieved December 8, 2013 .