biography
| name: |
Carpentier, Georges
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pronunciation:
[kah(r)p&etilde;tyay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1894–1975)
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| biography:
| Boxer, born in Liévin, N France. Renowned for his elegance in the ring, he became the first French European welterweight boxing champion (1911), European middleweight champion (1912), and European light heavyweight and heavyweight (1913) champion. He became world middleweight champion in 1920 in Jersey City, USA, and was defeated by Jack Dempsey the next year in a fight for the World heavyweight title. France's finest boxer, in a career of 113 fights he had fought at all weights from flyweight to heavyweight, and was admitted to the boxing Hall of Fame. |
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