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Boxing — Light-Welterweight, Men

Times held 17
Total participants 495
Total countries 120

Participants

Year Event Status Participants NOCs
1952 Light-Welterweight (≤63.5 kilograms), Men Olympic 28 28
1956 Light-Welterweight (≤63.5 kilograms), Men Olympic 22 22
1960 Light-Welterweight (≤63.5 kilograms), Men Olympic 34 34
1964 Light-Welterweight (≤63.5 kilograms), Men Olympic 35 35
1968 Light-Welterweight (≤63.5 kilograms), Men Olympic 35 35
1972 Light-Welterweight (≤63.5 kilograms), Men Olympic 32 32
1976 Light-Welterweight (≤63.5 kilograms), Men Olympic 31 31
1980 Light-Welterweight (≤63.5 kilograms), Men Olympic 30 30
1984 Light-Welterweight (≤63.5 kilograms), Men Olympic 37 37
1988 Light-Welterweight (≤63.5 kilograms), Men Olympic 45 45
1992 Light-Welterweight (≤63.5 kilograms), Men Olympic 30 30
1996 Light-Welterweight (≤63.5 kilograms), Men Olympic 32 32
2000 Light-Welterweight (≤63.5 kilograms), Men Olympic 27 27
2004 Light-Welterweight (≤64 kilograms), Men Olympic 27 27
2008 Light-Welterweight (≤64 kilograms), Men Olympic 28 28
2012 Light-Welterweight (≤64 kilograms), Men Olympic 28 28
2016 Light-Welterweight (≤64 kilograms), Men Olympic 27 27

Medal winners

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1952 Chuck AdkinsUSA Viktor MednovURS Erkki Mallenius
Bruno Visintin		FIN
ITA
1956 Vladimir EngibaryanURS Franco NenciITA Constantin Dumitrescu
Henry Loubscher		ROU
RSA
1960 Bohumil NěmečekTCH Ike QuarteyGHA Marian Kasprzyk
Quincey Daniels		POL
USA
1964 Jerzy KulejPOL Yevgeny FrolovURS Eddie Blay
Habib Galhia		GHA
TUN
1968 Jerzy KulejPOL Enrique RegüeiferosCUB Arto Nilsson
Jim Wallington		FIN
USA
1972 Ray SealesUSA Angel AngelovBUL Issaka Daboré
Zvonko Vujin		NIG
YUG
1976 Sugar Ray LeonardUSA Andrés AldamaCUB Vladimir Kolev
Kazimierz Szczerba		BUL
POL
1980 Patrizio OlivaITA Serik KonakbayevURS José Aguilar
Tony Willis		CUB
GBR
1984 Jerry PageUSA Thawee UmponmahaTHA Mircea Fulger
Mirko Puzović		ROU
YUG
1988 Vyacheslav YanovskyURS Grahame CheneyAUS Reiner Gies
Lars Myrberg		FRG
SWE
1992 Héctor VinentCUB Mark LeducCAN Jyri Kjäll
Leonard Doroftei		FIN
ROU
1996 Héctor VinentCUB Oktay UrkalGER Bolat Niyazymbetov
Fathi Missaoui		KAZ
TUN
2000 Mukhammad Kadyr AbdullayevUZB Ricardo Williams, Jr.USA Mohamed Allalou
Diógenes Luna		ALG
CUB
2004 Manut BoonjumnongTHA Yudel JohnsonCUB Boris Georgiev
Ionuț Gheorghe		BUL
ROU
2008 Félix DíazDOM Manut BoonjumnongTHA Roniel Iglesias
Alexis Vastine		CUB
FRA
2012 Roniel IglesiasCUB Denys BerinchykUKR Vincenzo Mangiacapre
Uranchimegiin Mönkh-Erdene		ITA
MGL
2016 Fazliddin GaybnazarovUZB Lorenzo SotomayorAZE Artem Harutyunyan
Vitaly Dunaytsev		GER
RUS

Medals by country

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
United States USA 4 1 2 7
Cuba CUB 3 3 3 9
Soviet Union URS 2 3 0 5
Poland POL 2 0 2 4
Uzbekistan UZB 2 0 0 2
Thailand THA 1 2 0 3
Italy ITA 1 1 2 4
Czechoslovakia TCH 1 0 0 1
Dominican Republic DOM 1 0 0 1
Bulgaria BUL 0 1 2 3
Germany GER 0 1 1 2
Ghana GHA 0 1 1 2
Australia AUS 0 1 0 1
Azerbaijan AZE 0 1 0 1
Canada CAN 0 1 0 1
Ukraine UKR 0 1 0 1
Romania ROU 0 0 4 4
Finland FIN 0 0 3 3
Tunisia TUN 0 0 2 2
Yugoslavia YUG 0 0 2 2
Algeria ALG 0 0 1 1
France FRA 0 0 1 1
Great Britain GBR 0 0 1 1
Kazakhstan KAZ 0 0 1 1
Mongolia MGL 0 0 1 1
Niger NIG 0 0 1 1
Russian Federation RUS 0 0 1 1
South Africa RSA 0 0 1 1
Sweden SWE 0 0 1 1
West Germany FRG 0 0 1 1

Top medallists

Athlete Nat Gold Silver Bronze Total
Héctor Vinent CUB 2 0 0 2
Jerzy Kulej POL 2 0 0 2
Manut Boonjumnong THA 1 1 0 2
Roniel Iglesias CUB 1 0 1 2
Patrizio Oliva ITA 1 0 0 1
Bohumil Němeček CZE
TCH		 1 0 0 1
Vyacheslav Yanovsky BLR
URS		 1 0 0 1
Vladimir Engibaryan ARM
URS		 1 0 0 1
Chuck Adkins USA 1 0 0 1
Sugar Ray Leonard USA 1 0 0 1
Jerry Page USA 1 0 0 1
Ray Seales USA 1 0 0 1
Mukhammad Kadyr Abdullayev UZB 1 0 0 1
Félix Díaz DOM 1 0 0 1
Fazliddin Gaybnazarov UZB 1 0 0 1