Lorenzo Vitria

Lorenzo Vitrià Barrera (born Barcelona February 2, 1908, died Gusen (Austria) June 18, 1941) was a Spanish boxer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.

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 concentration camp of Mauthausen (Austria) in 1940 and he died in 1941 in Gusen (an external concentration camp of Mauthausen).[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Retrieved 24 July 2018.


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