Ričardas Tamulis

Ričardas Tamulis medal table
boxer
Soviet Union - Lithuania
Olympic games
silver	1964 Tokyo	Welterweight
European Championship
gold	1961 Belgrade	Welterweight
gold	1963 Moscow	Welterweight
gold	1965 Berlin	Welterweight

Ričardas Tamulis ( Russian Ричардас Ионович Тамулис , Ritschardas Ionowitsch Tamulis ; born July 22, 1938 in Kaunas , † April 22, 2008 in Jonava ) was a Soviet boxer of Lithuanian descent. He was the winner of the silver medal at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo and three-time European champion of the amateurs in the welterweight division.

Career

Ričardas Tamulis grew up in his hometown Kaunas, Russian Kowno. He started boxing when he was 15 . His trainer was Anatanas Zabaras. At the beginning of his career he belonged to the sports organization "Spartak", in 1962 he moved to SSD "Jalgiris" Kaunas, where he also got a new coach in Algirdas Šocikas , the former two-time European heavyweight champion. Ričardas Tamulis was a boxing and hard hitting southpaw, i. H. The flapping hand was his left hand.

In the international boxing world, Ričardas Tamulis was first known in 1957 for his victory at the 1957 World Youth Festival in Moscow . He beat the Polish Henryk Wojciechowski in the light welterweight (then up to 63.5 kg body weight) on points in the final. In 1958 he finished 2nd in the Soviet championship in the same weight class. In the final battle he delivered a courageous fight to the Olympic champion of 1956 Vladimir Jengibarjan , which he lost just on points.

In 1959 he was first Soviet champion in welterweight. He was then used at the European Championships that year in Lucerne , but had the bad luck to meet the multiple Polish European champion Leszek Drogosz in the first round , against whom he lost on points and had to retire. 1959 started Ričardas Tamulis on the occasion of an international match between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Soviet Union in Dortmund against the German champion Karl-Heinz Johannpeter and defeated this clearly on points.

In 1960 Ričardas Tamulis could not take part in the Soviet championship due to injury and was therefore not nominated for the Olympic Games in Rome. In 1961 he fought for his second Soviet welterweight championship title by defeating Leonid Sheynkman and was used at the European Championships in Belgrade . There he defeated Jozef Knut from Poland in the round of 16, Laszlo Sebök from Hungary in the quarter-finals, Jean Josselin from France in the semifinals and Max Meier from Switzerland on points in the finals and thus became European champion for the first time .

In 1962 Ričardas Tamulis was again Soviet champion. He had to fight hard there in the final battle against the strong Victor Petrovich Agejew to win this title. There were no international championships this year. At the Soviet championship in 1963 Ričardas lost Tamulis to Viktor Agejew and only finished 3rd in the welterweight division. He was nevertheless used by the coach Viktor Ogurenkow in charge at the European Championships this year in Moscow and won his second European title there. He defeated it Ralph Charles from England by KO in the 2nd round and Pentti Purhonen from Finland on points. In the semifinals he met the Czech Olympic champion from 1960 in the light welterweight division Bohumil Nemecek , whom he was able to score safely. In the final he also managed to win points over the physically extremely strong Italian Silvano Bertini .

In the 1964 Olympic year, Ričardas Tamulis hoped his great goal of being able to achieve the Olympic victory. He won at the Soviet championship in the final fight against Valeri Tregubow on points and had thus qualified with his fourth championship title for participation in the Olympic Games in Tokyo welterweight. In the last sixteen he defeated there Bruno Guse from Schwerin , who started for the all-German team, on points, won in the quarter-finals over Ernest Mbawa from Uganda on points and in the semifinals also won against Pertti Purhonen on points. In the final, he faced the Pole Marian Kasprzyk , a super technician who was excellently hired by his trainer Feliks Stamm, and who was awarded a 4-1 point win. Ričardas Tamulis "only" won the silver medal . Nevertheless, he was voted the most popular athlete in Lithuania that year.

In 1965 Ričardas Tamulis was absent from the Soviet championship. But he was at the European Championships this year in Berlin used (East) and won there in the second round on Milan Todorowics of Yugoslavia , in the quarterfinals Leszek Ciuka from Poland, in the semifinals on Vladimir Kucera from the CSSR and in the final over Luigi Patruno in Italy each on points and became European welterweight champion for the third time.

In 1966 Ričardas Tamulis won his fifth Soviet championship. A success that cannot be valued highly enough in view of the stiff competition in this country. In those years it was probably easier to become European champions than Soviet champions.

In 1967 Ričardas Tamulis made his fifth start at a European championship. He had bad luck in Rome when one of his eyebrows burst open in his first fight against Ion Hodosan from Romania and he had to be taken out of the fight because of this injury.

After the 1967 season, Ričardas Tamulis, who also held the honorary title of "Honored Master of Sport in the USSR," ended his boxer career. It had been signaled to him that he would probably have no chance of being nominated for a second time for the Olympic Games Contested 257 fights, of which he won 243. He trained as a coach and was a boxer trainer for "Jalgiris" Kaunas for many years.After Lithuania regained political independence in 1990, he was also active in politics.

Country battles of Ričardas Tamulis

• 1959 in Glasgow , Scotland against USSR , points winner over Scott,
• 1959 in Dortmund , FRG against USSR, points winner over Karl-Heinz Johannpeter ,
• 1963 in Odessa , USSR against Bulgaria , points winner over Stojanow,
• 1964 in Moscow , USSR against Poland , points winner over Jozef Knut

Results of the Soviet championships in which Ričardas Tamulis participated

• 1958: 1st Wladimir Jengibarjan , 2nd Ričardas Tamulis, 3rd Juri Krylow, light welterweight,
• 1959: 1. Ričardas Tamulis, 2. M. Waynstein, 3. V. Sharogorodsky, welterweight (We),
• 1961: 1. Ričardas Tamulis, 2. Leonid Sheynkman, 3. Wiktor Agejew a . Ivan Bobkov, We,
• 1962: 1. Ričardas Tamulis, 2. Wiktor Agejew, 3. L. Trishkin a. Leonid Sheynkman, We,
• 1963: 1. Viktor Agejew, 2. Wladimir Trepska, 3. Ričardas Tamulis a. Leonid Sheynkman, We,
• 1964: 1. Ričardas Tamulis, 2. Valeri Tregubow , 3. Wladimir Trepska a. S, Kirsanov,
• 1966: 1. Ričardas Tamulis, 2. I. Pestun, 3. Wladimir Trepska u. B. Klimow,
• 1967: 1. Vladimir Musalimow , 2. Boris Kurotschkin, 3. Ričardas Tamulis a. V. Privalov

death

Ričardas Tamulis lived in Kaunas and then in the small town of Jonava , 35 km from Kaunas. On April 22, 2008, he was thrown from a balcony on the 8th floor by his neighbor during an alcohol dispute, killing him.

His grave is in the Petrašiūnai cemetery .

Individual evidence

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Web links

• Ričardas Tamulis in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait of Ričardas Tamulis in Russian

swell

• Box Sport trade journal from 1957 to 1968,
• BOX ALMANACH 1920 - 1980 , published by the German Amateur Boxing Association, 1980,
• Website "www.sport-komplett.de",
• Website "www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl"
• Website "www.peoples.ru/sport/boxer"