Franciszek Szymura, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Franciszek Szymura

Polish boxer

Date of Birth: 07-Dec-1912

Place of Birth: Dortmund, Free State of Prussia, Germany

Date of Death: 18-May-1985

Profession: basketball player, boxer

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Franciszek Szymura (7 December 1912, Dortmund – 18 May 1985, Warsaw) was a Polish boxer who competed four times in the European Amateur Boxing Championships (1937, 1939, 1947, and 1949) and in the 1948 Summer Olympics.He won twice the silver medal in the 1937 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Milan and the 1939 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Dublin, beat twice by Luigi Musina, the upcoming professional European champion (1942–1947).
At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, he was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Light heavyweight class after losing his fight to the upcoming bronze medalist Mauro Cia.