Dezső Frigyes

Biographical information

RolesCompeted in Olympic Games
SexMale
Full nameDezső Lajos•Frigyes (Fritsch)
Used nameDezső•Frigyes
Born27 November 1913 in Budapest, Budapest (HUN)
Died18 July 1984 in Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
AffiliationsBKV Előre SC, Budapest (HUN)
NOC Hungary

Biography

Starting from 1928, Dezsö Frigyes was a featherweight boxer for Budapest Vasutas and from 1935 with BSZKRT. After several youth championship titles, he won four individual and three team national championships between 1934 and 1942. In this period he was selected 33 times for the national team. Frigyes won a silver medal as a featherweight at the 1934 European Championships. He finished fourth in the featherweight boxing tournament at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. In 1942 he won a gold medal at the unofficial European Championships. He also tried professional boxing for a short time in 1942, but from 1943 worked as a coach. Frigyes took part in World War II, where he was wounded.

Frigyes worked as a coach in Győr from 1949, then from 1953-56 was on the Hungarian national team coaching staff. After the defeat of the Hungarian Revolution in 1957, he went abroad and settled in Cleveland, Ohio (USA), where he was president of the Hungarian Athletics Club of Cleveland for many years.

Results

Games Discipline (Sport) / Event NOC / Team Pos Medal As
1936 Summer Olympics Boxing HUN Dezső Frigyes
Featherweight, Men (Olympic) 4