Richard Vogt (26 January 1913 – 13 July 1988) was a German
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who competed in the
1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to ...
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In 1936 he won the silver medal in the light heavyweight class after losing the final against
Roger Michelot.
1936 Olympic results
Below is the record of Richard Vogt, a German light heavyweight boxer who competed at the 1936 Berlin Olympics:
* Round of 32: bye
* Round of 16: defeated Erminio Bolzan (Italy) on points
* Quarterfinal: defeated Hannes Koivunen (Finland) on points
* Semifinal: defeated Francisco Risiglione (Argentina) on points
* Final: lost to Roger Michelot (France) on points (was awarded silver medal)
Pro career
After turning pro in 1938 Vogt, known as "Riedel", became a three-time German Light Heavyweight champion, and in 1942 lost on points in a fight for the European Light Heavyweight Title against
Luigi Musina. In 1948, before a crowd of 20,000 in Berlin, he beat former World Heavyweight champion
Max Schmeling
Maximilian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling (, ; 28 September 1905 – 2 February 2005) was a German boxing, boxer who was heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932. His two fights with Joe Louis in 1936 and 1938 were worldwide cul ...
, aged 43, in the latter's last fight. Vogt had another 15 fights and retired at the age of 39 in 1952.
He spent his twilight years in a retirement home in Hamburg-Wandsbek. Vogt, who suffered from cancer and Parkinson's disease, died at the age of 75. In 2003, the Riedel-Vogt-Weg in the Jenfeld district of Hamburg was named after him.
[Horst Beckershaus: ''Die Hamburger Straßennamen'', Verlag Die Hanse, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-86393-009-7]
References
External links
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databaseolympics.com
1913 births
1988 deaths
Light-heavyweight boxers
Olympic boxers for Germany
Boxers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Germany
Olympic medalists in boxing
German male boxers
Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Boxers from Hamburg
20th-century German sportsmen
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