Pentti Niinivuori

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Pentti Niinivuori (born August 27, 1931 in Forssa , † July 5, 1988 there ) was a Finnish boxer . He won a bronze medal in the lightweight at the European Amateur Championship in Warsaw in 1953 .

Career

Pentti Niinivuori was a member of the Forssan Alkan sports club and started boxing as a teenager. In 1950 he started as a flyweight for the first time in a Finnish senior championship and lost the final against the eventual Olympic champion Pentti Hämäläinen on points. He was Finnish champion in 1953, 1954 and 1955 in the lightweight and 1959 in the welterweight .

In 1952 he was allowed to compete as a featherweight at the Olympic Games in Helsinki , although he had only finished 3rd in the Finnish championship of that year. In Helsinki he lost his first fight against Sergio Caprari from Italy and retired early.

At the European Championships in Warsaw in 1953 , he was more successful. He fought his way there in the lightweight up to the semi-finals, in which he was defeated on points against Istvan Juhasz from Hungary. But he won a bronze medal by reaching the semi-finals . In 1953, Pentti Niinivuori started for Europe in two comparative matches against the United States in Chicago and St. Louis , defeating the Americans Joe Catalano and Frank Borders on points in the lightweight. In the same year he won the international match against Poland in Helsinki over the Polish silver medalist at the 1952 Olympic Games in lightweight Aleksy Antkiewicz on points.

He also competed in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne . He lost there but in featherweight against Zygmunt Milewski from Poland and retired without having won a medal. His last start at international championships he completed at the European Championships in 1957 in Prague , where he competed in the light welterweight division . He won there over Alexander Miltsew from Bulgaria , but retired in the round of 16 through a point defeat against Dave Stone from England .

In 1960 Pentti Niinivuori ended his boxer career. He did not qualify for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome . He completed a total of 230 fights in his career as an amateur, of which he won 194 fights. He never became a professional boxer.

International success

Finnish championships

  • 1950, 2nd place, flyweight, behind Pentti Hämäläinen ,
  • 1951, 2nd place, featherweight, behind Pauli Dufva,
  • 1952, 3rd place, featherweight, behind Taisto Tuominen u. Matti Kantto,
  • 1953, 1st place, lightweight, ahead of Osmo Syrjänen,
  • 1954, 1st place, lightweight, ahead of Bror Loman,
  • 1955, 1st place, lightweight, ahead of Väinö Järvenpää,
  • 1959, 1st place, welterweight, ahead of Mauri Ruonala

International battles

  • 1951 in Helsinki , Finland against Poland , Fe, points winner over Wawrzynie Bazarnik,
  • 1952 in Montargis , France against Finland, Le, point defeat against Retail,
  • 1952 in Helsinki, Finland against Norway , Fe, points winner over Egil Larsen,
  • 1952 in Warsaw , Poland against Finland, Fe, point defeat against Jozef Kruza ,
  • 1953 in Chicago , USA against Europe , Le, points winner over Joe Catalano,
  • 1953 in St. Louis , USA against Europe, Le, points winner over Frank Borders,
  • 1953 in Helsinki, Finland against Poland, Le, points winner over Aleksy Antkiewicz ,
  • 1954 in Katowice , Poland against Finland, Le, point defeat against Zygmunt Milewski ,
  • 1955 in Helsinki, Finland against FRG , Le, points winner over Harry Kurschat ,
  • 1956 in Rzeszów, Poland against Finland, Le, points winner over Zdzislaw Gosciniak,
  • 1956 in Lublin, Poland against Finland, Hw, points winner over Mieczyslaw Kapturski

literature

  • Box Sport trade journal from 1950 to 1960
  • Box Almanach 1920 - 1980 , published by Deutscher Amateur Bos-Verband eV, 1980

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personal data
SURNAME Niinivuori, Pentti
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish boxer
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Forssa
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 1988
Place of death Forssa