Boxing at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Boxing
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Boxing; at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Dates	18-31 July 1976
Competitors	266 from 54 nations
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Dates18-31 July 1976

Competitors266 from 54 nations

There were eleven boxing events at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The competition was held from 18 to 31 July with the participation of 266 fighters from 54 countries.^[1]

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Boxing at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Light flyweight	men
Flyweight	men
Bantamweight	men
Featherweight	men
Lightweight	men
Light welterweight	men
Welterweight	men
Light middleweight	men
Middleweight	men
Light heavyweight	men
Heavyweight	men
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Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light flyweight details	Jorge Hernández Cuba	Ri Byong-uk North Korea	Orlando Maldonado Puerto Rico Payao Pooltarat Thailand
Flyweight details	Leo Randolph United States	Ramón Duvalón Cuba	Leszek Blazynski Poland David Torosyan Soviet Union
Bantamweight details	Gu Yong-Ju North Korea	Charles Mooney United States	Patrick Cowdell Great Britain Viktor Rybakov Soviet Union
Featherweight details	Ángel Herrera Cuba	Richard Nowakowski East Germany	Leszek Kosedowski Poland Juan Paredes Mexico
Lightweight details	Howard Davis United States	Simion Cuțov Romania	Ace Rusevski Yugoslavia Vassily Solomin Soviet Union
Light welterweight details	Ray Leonard United States	Andrés Aldama Cuba	Vladimir Kolev Bulgaria Kazimierz Szczerba Poland
Welterweight details	Jochen Bachfeld East Germany	Pedro Gamarro Venezuela	Reinhard Skricek West Germany Victor Zilberman Romania
Light middleweight details	Jerzy Rybicki Poland	Tadija Kačar Yugoslavia	Rolando Garbey Cuba Viktor Savchenko Soviet Union
Middleweight details	Michael Spinks United States	Rufat Riskiyev Soviet Union	Luis Martínez Cuba Alec Năstac Romania
Light heavyweight details	Leon Spinks United States	Sixto Soria Cuba	Costică Dafinoiu Romania Janusz Gortat Poland
Heavyweight details	Teófilo Stevenson Cuba	Mircea Şimon Romania	Clarence Hill Bermuda John Tate United States

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	5	1	1	7
2	Cuba	3	3	2	8
3	East Germany	1	1	0	2
3	North Korea	1	1	0	2
5	Poland	1	0	4	5
6	Romania	0	2	3	5
7	Soviet Union	0	1	4	5
8	Yugoslavia	0	1	1	2
9	Venezuela	0	1	0	1
10	Bermuda	0	0	1	1
	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	Mexico	0	0	1	1
	Puerto Rico	0	0	1	1
	Thailand	0	0	1	1
	West Germany	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		11	11	22	44

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)

Boxing at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Medal table

References

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