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Hungary's Laszlo Papp became the first man to win three Olympic boxing gold medals. He beat Britain's Johnny Wright to take middleweight gold at London 1948 before enjoying further success down at light-middleweight. At Helsinki 1952, he defeated Theunis van Schalkwyk of South Africa before retaining his crown at Melbourne 1956 with victory over USA's Jose Torres.

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Laszlo Papp's historic hat-trick of Olympic titles

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