Lorenzo Vitria
Llorenç Vitrià Barrera (2 February 1908, in Barcelona – 18 June 1941, in Gusen, Austria) was a Spanish boxer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.[1]
In 1924 he was eliminated in the second round of the flyweight class after losing his fight to Jock MacGregor. Due his exile to France after the Spanish Civil War, he was deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria in 1940 and he died in 1941 in Gusen (an external concentration camp of Mauthausen).[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Lorenzo Vitria". Olympedia. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- ^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
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