László Papp

László Papp was a Hungarian professional boxer from Budapest. He was left-handed and won Olympic gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. With the third of these he became the first boxer in Olympic history to win three successive gold medals. He won 12 of his 13 Olympic fights without losing a round, dropping only one round, in his last Olympic final, to the American boxer José Torres. No other boxer achieved a triple Olympic gold for 20 years, until Cuba's Teófilo Stevenson won three, followed later by another Cuban, Félix Savón, as the third man to accomplish the feat. Papp was born on 25 March 1926 and died on 16 October 2003.