Edoardo Garzena (4 May 1900 – 11 July 1982) was an Italian

featherweight Featherweight is a weight class in the combat sports of boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts, and Greco-Roman wrestling. Boxing Professional boxing History A featherweight boxer weighs in at a limit of . In the early days of the division, this ...

boxer who competed in the 1920s. He was born and died in

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. Th ...

. Garzena won a bronze medal at the

1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; nl, Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; german: Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; nl, Spelen van ...

, losing to French boxer

Jean Gachet Jean Gachet (2 June 1894 in Saint-Étienne – 4 February 1968) was a French featherweight boxer. He competed in the 1920s. Gachet won a silver medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics, losing to Paul Fritsch in the final. Olympic results *1st ...

in the semi-finals.

1920 Olympic results

* Round of 32: bye * Round of 16: defeated Roger Vincken (Belgium) * Quarterfinal: defeated James Cater (Great Britain) * Semifinal: lost to Paul Fritsch (France) * Bronze Medal Bout: defeated Jack Zivic (United States) -- was awarded bronze medal

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pechino2008 profileEdoardo Garzena's obituary
1900 births 1982 deaths Sportspeople from Turin Featherweight boxers Olympic boxers of Italy Boxers at the 1920 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Italy Place of birth missing Olympic medalists in boxing Italian male boxers Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics {{Italy-Olympic-medalist-stub