Tibor Csík was a bantamweight

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 professional

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 boxer

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 from Hungary

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, who won the gold

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 medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics

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He was born in Jászberény

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Jászberény is a city and market centre in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county in Hungary.- Location :Jászberény is located in central Hungary, on the Zagyva River, a tributary of the Tisza River...

 into a poor family. He began boxing in featherweight and later changed to bantamweight. A two-time Hungarian champion from 1946 and 1948, his biggest success was the Olympic Games gold medal he won in London.

Csik had an easy route to the semi-finals, as his first opponent was disqualified, and his quarter final opponent Jimmy Carruthers

Jimmy Carruthers

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 of Australia

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, was forced to withdraw due to an eye injury. In the final, Csik won a decision over Giovanni Zuddas

Giovanni Zuddas

Giovanni Battista Zuddas was a bantamweight professional boxer from Italy, who won the silver medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics, losing to Tibor Csik in the championship match.-Pro career:...

 of Italy

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, to win the gold medal. After his return to Hungary he was awarded the honorary citizenship of Jászberény.

He actively participated in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, which eventually was strucked down by the invading Soviet Army and Csík had to flee Hungary. He settled in Australia, where he died in 1976. He was buried in Sydney

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