Szapsel Rotholc, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Szapsel Rotholc

Polish boxer

Date of Birth: 02-Jul-1913

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1996

Profession: boxer

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Szapsel Rotholc

  • Szapsel Rotholc (July 2, 1913, Warsaw, Poland โ€“ 1996, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) was a Polish boxer. Born into a Jewish family in Warsaw, he was a member of the Gwiazda Warszawa Boxing Club in 1929โ€“1939.
  • He won the bronze medal in the Flyweight class at the 1934 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Budapest.
  • In 1933 he won the Polish champion title.
  • He represented Poland in many matches: POL vs.
  • HUN (1934, 1935), POL vs.
  • USA (1934), POL vs.
  • CZE (1934), POL vs.
  • GER (1934, 1935, 1938), POL vs.
  • NOR (1937), POL vs.
  • DEN (1937), POL vs.
  • ITA (1938), POL vs.
  • FRA (1938), POL vs.
  • SUI (1938), POL vs.
  • EST (1938), POL vs.
  • SWE (1939), POL vs.
  • FIN (1939), scoring +15 โ€“0 =1.
  • He played also for Warsaw in duals against Dublin (1937), Vienna (1939) and Italy (1939), scoring +2 โ€“1 =0.
  • Rotholc won all fights except two, one drew and one loss with an Italian boxer Guido Nardecchia.Rotholc took 10th and 6th places, respectively in 1934 and 1935, in the Polish Sportspersonality of the Year, chosen by the readers of the newspaper Przeglad Sportowy. During the Nazi occupation in World War II, he lived and survived in the Warsaw Ghetto as a Jewish policeman.
  • After the war he lived in Lรณdz until 1949, when he departed for Canada.

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