Boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Boxing
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Final results for the Boxing competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Flyweight	men
Bantamweight	men
Featherweight	men
Lightweight	men
Welterweight	men
Middleweight	men
Light heavyweight	men
Heavyweight	men
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Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (−51 kg) details	Pascual Pérez Argentina	Spartaco Bandinelli Italy	Han Soo-Ann South Korea
Bantamweight (−54 kg) details	Tibor Csík Hungary	Gianbattista Zuddas Italy	Juan Evangelista Venegas Puerto Rico
Featherweight (−58 kg) details	Ernesto Formenti Italy	Dennis Shepherd South Africa	Aleksy Antkiewicz Poland
Lightweight (−62 kg) details	Gerald Dreyer South Africa	Joseph Vissers Belgium	Svend Wad Denmark
Welterweight (−67 kg) details	Július Torma Czechoslovakia	Hank Herring United States	Alessandro D'Ottavio Italy
Middleweight (−73 kg) details	László Papp Hungary	John Wright Great Britain	Ivano Fontana Italy
Light heavyweight (−80 kg) details	George Hunter South Africa	Don Scott Great Britain	Mauro Cía Argentina
Heavyweight (+80 kg) details	Rafael Iglesias Argentina	Gunnar Nilsson Sweden	John Arthur South Africa

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Africa	2	1	1	4
2	Argentina	2	0	1	3
3	Hungary	2	0	0	2
4	Italy	1	2	2	5
5	Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1
6	Great Britain	0	2	0	2
7	Belgium	0	1	0	1
	Sweden	0	1	0	1
	United States	0	1	0	1
10	Denmark	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Puerto Rico	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		8	8	8	24

v t e Val Barker Trophy winners
Awarded to the outstanding and most stylistic boxer of each Olympic Games
Men	1936: Louis Laurie (USA) 1948: George Hunter (RSA) 1952: Norvel Lee (USA) 1956: Dick McTaggart (GBR) 1960: Giovanni Benvenuti (ITA) 1964: Valeri Popenchenko (URS) 1968: Philip Waruinge (KEN) 1972: Teófilo Stevenson (CUB) 1976: Howard Davis Jr. (USA) 1980: Patrizio Oliva (ITA) 1984: Paul Gonzales (USA) 1988: Roy Jones Jr. (USA) 1992: Roberto Balado (CUB) 1996: Vassiliy Jirov (KAZ) 2000: Oleg Saitov (RUS) 2004: Bakhtiyar Artayev (KAZ) 2008: Vasiliy Lomachenko (UKR) 2012: Serik Sapiyev (KAZ) 2016: Hasanboy Dusmatov (UZB)
Women	2016: Claressa Shields (USA)

Medal table

v t e Events at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London
Athletics Basketball Boxing Canoeing Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field hockey Football Gymnastics Lacrosse (demonstration) Modern pentathlon Rowing Sailing Shooting Swimming Water polo Weightlifting Wrestling Art competitions (unofficial)
Medal table List of medalists

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