Svend Wad

Svend Wad
Data
Birth Name	Svend Wad
Weight class	lightweight
nationality	Denmark
birthday	February 3, 1928
place of birth	Bov
Date of death	4th December 2004
Place of death	Haderslev
Combat Statistics
Struggles	17th
Victories	14th
Knockout victories	0
Defeats	2
draw	1

Svend Wad (born February 3, 1928 in Bov , † December 4, 2004 in Haderslev ) was a Danish lightweight boxer .

career

As an amateur, Wad was Danish champion in 1946 and Jutland champion from 1947 to 1949 . At the European Championships in Dublin in 1947 , he finished third. In 1948 he took part in the Olympic Games in London , where he won the bronze medal in the lightweight.

In 1949 he became a professional. On February 16, 1951 he boxed against Jørgen Johansen for the Danish championship, but had to admit defeat on points over ten rounds. He suffered his second defeat on October 26, 1951 in Geneva against Duilio Loi . He then boxed only sporadically, until 1958 he only fought four more fights. With the exception of the argument with Loi, all of his fights took place in Copenhagen .

Web links

• Svend Wad in the BoxRec database
• Svend Wad in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )