Pierre Baruzy was a manager and French boxing champion.
10 Facts About Pierre Baruzy
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Pierre Baruzy participated in the 1924 Summer Olympics, the first Olympics to include a demonstration of French boxing.
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Pierre Baruzy joined the Resistance during the Second World War.
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Pierre Baruzy chaired the "JP workers commission"; Under the Occupation, Baruzy was appointed municipal councilor of Paris in December 1941 by the Minister of the Interior Pierre Pucheu, and became secretary of the municipal council in 1943.
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Pierre Baruzy was president of the Steering Committee of Timken and Chancellor of the CIOS International Academy.
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Pierre Baruzy was arrested in August 1944 but was awarded the Resistance Medal.
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Pierre Baruzy was active since 1945 in the National Committee of the French Organization, which he chaired from 1952 to 1957, after having been its general secretary.
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Pierre Baruzy gave new impetus to the sport in the postwar period; in 1965 he became the founding president of the French National Boxing Committee which would be replaced in 1975 by the French Boxing Federation Savate.
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Pierre Baruzy received numerous civil and military awards throughout his career.
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Pierre Baruzy is buried in the tomb of the Bouillon-Bey family.