Llorenç Vitrià Barrera (2 February 1908, in
Barcelona
Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...
– 18 June 1941, in Gusen, Austria) was a Spanish
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who competed in the
1924 Summer Olympics
The 1924 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the VIII Olympiad () and officially branded as Paris 1924, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France. The opening ceremony was held on 5 July, but some competitions had al ...
.
In 1924 he was eliminated in the second round of the
flyweight class after losing his fight to
Jock MacGregor. Due his exile to France after the
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War () was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republican faction (Spanish Civil War), Republicans and the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the Left-wing p ...
, he was deported to the
Mauthausen concentration camp
Mauthausen was a German Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen, Upper Austria, Mauthausen (roughly east of Linz), Upper Austria. It was the main camp of a group with List of subcamps of Mauthausen, nearly 100 f ...
in Austria in 1940 and he died in 1941 in Gusen (an external concentration camp of Mauthausen).
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1908 births
1941 deaths
Boxers from Barcelona
Flyweight boxers
Olympic boxers for Spain
Boxers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Spanish male boxers
Exiles of the Spanish Civil War in France
French people who died in Mauthausen concentration camp
Spanish people murdered abroad
20th-century Spanish sportsmen
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