Peter Weiss (born 16 December, 1938 – 27 March, 2021) was a German born-Austrian amateur

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. He competed at the

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as a

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and the 1964 Summer Olympics as a

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Early life

Weiss was born on 16 December, 1938, in

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, Germany. His father was Ernst Weiss (1912-1997), a

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Career

Weiss followed in his father's footsteps and started boxing in 1958.https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/7487 He represented Austria at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome and won his first round bout by outpointing the Indonesian Tiang Hok Oei. Weiss lost the second-bout to Alfonso Carbajo and thus, got eliminated. Four years later he competed once again in The Olympics at Tokyo, he lost his first-round bout against Tunisian Tamar Ben Hassan.

Personal life

After his boxing career, Weiss became a coach at the

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and ran the Papageno Hotel in Vienna. He died of natural causes on 27 March, 2021.

References

1938 births Living people Austrian male boxers Olympic boxers for Austria Boxers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 1964 Summer Olympics Boxers from Berlin Bantamweight boxers 20th-century Austrian people {{Austria-boxing-bio-stub