Edgar Basel
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Edgar Basel (November 1, 1930 in Mannheim — September 7, 1977) was a boxer from Germany, who won the silver medal in the flyweight division (– 51 kg) at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
Amateur career
Basel had an outstanding amateur career. He was a five time German amateur flyweight champion (1951-1952, 1954-1956), and in 1955 he won the European Championship in Berlin (West).
Olympic results
- 1952 Silver medalist as a Flyweight at Helsinki Olympics. Results were:
- Defeated Henryk Kukier (Poland) PTS (3-0)
- Defeated Thorbjoern Clausen (Norway) KO-3
- Defeated Anatoli Bulakov (Soviet Union) PTS (2-1)
- Lost to Nathan Eugene Brooks (USA) PTS (0-3)
- 1956 competed as a Flyweight at the Melbourne Olympics. Result was:
- Lost to Vladimir Stolnikov (Soviet Union) PTS
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- German boxers
- Flyweight boxers
- Boxers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Boxers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers of Germany
- Olympic boxers of the United Team of Germany
- Olympic silver medalists for Germany
- 1930 births
- 1977 deaths
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Male boxers
- German Olympic medalist stubs
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- German boxing biography stubs
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
