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Casanovas who went on to take the gold medal. In the duel for the bronze medal he lost to the German Josef Miner, who took fourth place. Until 1948, losing semi-finalists held a bronze medal playoff, since 1952, both semi-finalists who lost to the gold and the silver medalist, received bronze medals.
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To the end of his years, Frigyes recalled the 1942 medal ceremony as one of the most moving moments of his life. The presentation of the
Hungarian national anthem on the Walcker Orgelbau-built pipe organ, which with 15,133 pipes and 200 stops, ranked at the time as the world's largest, before
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Frigyes was born to a
Hungarian Danube Schwabian family in Budapest. At age 15 he began his career winning the Hungarian National Youth Championships. In 1932, at age 18, he was selected to the National Team and for the next 12 years competed in championships throughout Europe, including
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Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was quelled by the returning Soviet army, Frigyes took his family to the United States, entering at the refugee camp in Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. A network television crew wanted to interview them in the camp, but with family remaining in Hungary, Frigyes
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In August, 1936, Frigyes competed in the Summer
Olympics in Berlin in featherweight class. He beat Denmark's Sigfred Madsen in the Round of 32. In the quarter-finals he bested Canadian William "Billy" Marquart on points, advancing to the semi-finals. There he lost on points to the Argentinian Oscar
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At the cathedral, both the mother-superior and the organist spoke German, though the latter did not know the anthem that was being requested. Outside the cathedral, by the fountain, an
American son, spoke German with a Polish organist, hummed the Hungarian anthem, which the organist jotted
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Centennial Hall in Breslau/Wrocław was renamed Hala Ludowa, and was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2006. The great pipe organ was moved to the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Wrocław.
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January 20–25, 1942, a capacity crowd of 8,000 spectators packed the
Centennial Hall (Jahrhunderthalle) in Breslau, Germany, today Wrocław, Poland, for the 1942 European Amateur Boxing Championships. Frigyes won the gold medal, beating Germany's Arthur Büttner in the finals.
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Frigyes died on July 18, 1984, in Cleveland, survived by his wife of 37 years, Esther, an executive at the Chilcote Company, and their son, Dennis, a lawyer, then in Ohio, later in California, and his two daughters by a previous marriage, Vilma Fülöp and Ágnes Fehér.
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The immigration policy of the mid-1950s was that refugees were dispersed to various locations in the US. He and his family were relocated to Cleveland, Ohio, where he trained boxers for the Golden Gloves championships, some of whom went on to become medalists.
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into musical notes on a napkin. Through the organist's skill, the result was a flawless rendition of the Hungarian Anthem, played one more time, on the organ on which Dezső Frigyes heard it, 66 years before.
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