Llorenç Vitrià Barrera (2 February 1908, in

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

– 18 June 1941, in Gusen, Austria) was a Spanish

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who competed in the

1924 Summer Olympics The 1924 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1924), officially the Games of the VIII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIIe olympiade) and also known as Paris 1924, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France. The op ...

. 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 The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebelión, lin ...

, he was deported to the

Mauthausen concentration camp Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen, Upper Austria, Mauthausen (roughly east of Linz), Upper Austria. It was the main camp of a group with List of subcamps of Mauthausen, nearly 100 further ...

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

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1908 births 1941 deaths Boxers from Barcelona Flyweight boxers Olympic boxers for Spain Boxers at the 1924 Summer Olympics Spanish male boxers Exiles of the Spanish Civil War in France French people who died in Mauthausen concentration camp Spanish people murdered abroad {{Spain-boxing-bio-stub