Date | 29 July – 11 August 1984 — 11:00 | |
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Status | Olympic | |
Location | Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, Los Angeles, California | |
Participants | 36 from 36 countries | |
Format | Single elimination tournament. |
Mark Breland was the 1982 World Champion in this class and came into Los Angeles both as the favorite and the most publicized boxer of the 1984 Olympics. He was a five-time Golden Gloves champion, and three-times US Champion (1981-83). In 1983 he had also starred in the film The Lords of Discipline in which he played the first black man to attend a southern military college in the 1960s. Breland was an easy winner of the welterweight gold medal, with two bouts not going the distance, and winning two by unanimous decision, including his final victory over Korea’s An Yeong-Su, the 1983 Asian Amateur Champion. Breland then turned professional, twice winning the WBA welterweight title, first in 1987, and holding it again from 1989-90. He retired after 1997 with a record of 35 wins, 3 wins and 1 draw, and then returned to the screen, making five movies from 1998-2005. He also worked as a boxing trainer.
Date | 29 July 1984 |
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Format | Winner of each match advanced to the second round. |
Date | 1 August 1984 |
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Format | Winner of each match advanced to the third round. |
Date | 6 August 1984 |
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Format | Winner of each match advanced to the quarter-finals. |
Match | Date/Time | Competitor | NOC | Result | Competitor | NOC | |
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Match #1 | 06 Aug | Joni Nyman | FIN | Decision | Kieran Joyce | IRL | |
Match #2 | 06 Aug | Dwight Frazer | JAM | Decision | Kitenge Kitengewa | COD | |
Match #3 | 06 Aug | Vesa Koskela | SWE | Knock-out | Bernard Wilson | GRN | |
Match #4 | 06 Aug | An Yeong-Su | KOR | Decision | Vedat Önsoy | TUR | |
Match #5 | 06 Aug | Alexander Künzler | FRG | Decision | Kamel Aboud | ALG | |
Match #6 | 06 Aug | Luciano Bruno | ITA | Decision | Peter Okumu | UGA | |
Match #7 | 06 Aug | Genaro León | MEX | Decision | Khemais Refai | TUN | |
Match #8 | 06 Aug | Mark Breland | USA | Decision | Rudel Obreja | ROU |
Date | 8 August 1984 |
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Format | Winner of each match advanced to the semi-finals. |
Match | Date/Time | Competitor | NOC | Result | Competitor | NOC | |
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Match #1 | 08 Aug | Joni Nyman | FIN | Decision | Dwight Frazer | JAM | |
Match #2 | 08 Aug | An Yeong-Su | KOR | Decision | Vesa Koskela | SWE | |
Match #3 | 08 Aug | Luciano Bruno | ITA | Decision | Alexander Künzler | FRG | |
Match #4 | 08 Aug | Mark Breland | USA | Knock-out | Genaro León | MEX |
Date | 9 August 1984 |
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Format | Winner of each match advanced to the final match. |
Match | Date/Time | Competitor | NOC | Result | Competitor | NOC | |
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Match #1 | 09 Aug | An Yeong-Su | KOR | Decision | Joni Nyman | FIN | |
Match #2 | 09 Aug | Mark Breland | USA | Decision | Luciano Bruno | ITA |
Date | 11 August 1984 |
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Match | Date/Time | Competitor | NOC | Result | Competitor | NOC | |
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Match 1/2 | 11 Aug | Mark Breland | USA | Decision | An Yeong-Su | KOR |