Boxing at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Boxing at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Venue	Boxhalle
Dates	27 August-10 September 1972
Competitors	354 from 80 nations

These are the final results for the boxing competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics. The competition was held from 27 August to 10 September with the participation of 354 fighters from 80 countries.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light flyweight	György Gedó  Hungary	Kim U-gil  North Korea	Ralph Evans  Great Britain Enrique Rodríguez  Spain
Flyweight	Georgi Kostadinov  Bulgaria	Leo Rwabwogo  Uganda	Leszek Błażyński  Poland Douglas Rodríguez  Cuba
Bantamweight	Orlando Martínez  Cuba	Alfonso Zamora  Mexico	Ricardo Carreras  United States George Turpin  Great Britain
Featherweight	Boris Kuznetsov  Soviet Union	Philip Waruinge  Kenya	András Botos  Hungary Clemente Rojas  Colombia
Lightweight	Jan Szczepański  Poland	László Orbán  Hungary	Samuel Mbugua  Kenya Alfonso Pérez  Colombia
Light welterweight	Sugar Ray Seales  United States	Angel Angelov  Bulgaria	Issaka Daborg  Niger Zvonimir Vujin  Yugoslavia
Welterweight	Emilio Correa  Cuba	János Kajdi  Hungary	Dick Murunga  Kenya Jesse Valdez  United States
Light middleweight	Dieter Kottysch  West Germany	Wiesław Rudkowski  Poland	Alan Minter  Great Britain Peter Tiepold  East Germany
Middleweight	Vyacheslav Lemeshev  Soviet Union	Reima Virtanen  Finland	Prince Amartey  Ghana Marvin Johnson  United States
Light heavyweight	Mate Parlov  Yugoslavia	Gilberto Carrillo  Cuba	Janusz Gortat  Poland Isaac Ikhouria  Nigeria
Heavyweight	Teófilo Stevenson  Cuba	Ion Alexe  Romania	Peter Hussing  West Germany Hasse Thomsén  Sweden

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	3	1	1	5
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	0	0	2
3	Hungary (HUN)	1	2	1	4
4	Poland (POL)	1	1	2	4
5	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	1	0	2
6	United States (USA)	1	0	3	4
7	West Germany (FRG)	1	0	1	2
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	1	0	1	2
9	Kenya (KEN)	0	1	2	3
10	Finland (FIN)	0	1	0	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	0	1
	North Korea (PRK)	0	1	0	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	1	0	1
	Uganda (UGA)	0	1	0	1
15	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	3	3
16	Colombia (COL)	0	0	2	2
17	East Germany (GDR)	0	0	1	1
	Ghana (GHA)	0	0	1	1
	Niger (NIG)	0	0	1	1
	Nigeria (NGR)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		11	11	22	44

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