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Bantamweight (≤54 kilograms), Men

Date28 July – 8 August 1992
StatusOlympic
LocationPabellón Club Joventut, Badalona
Participants31 from 31 countries
FormatSingle elimination tournament.

The last two World Championship finals (1989/1991) had matched Cuba’s Enrique Carrion and Bulgaria’s Serafim Todorov, with Carrion winning in 1989 and Todorov in 1991. Todorov was in Barcelona but after Carrion had twice lost to American Sergio Reyes, Jr., who was on the US team in 1992, he was replaced on the Cuban team by former featherweight Joël Casamayor. Another challenger was North Korea’s Li Gwang-Sik, a bronze medalist at the last two Worlds (as a flyweight in 1989).

Reyes was the first of the favorites to go out, losing to Li in the second round, who then took out Todorov in the quarters. But Li lost the semi-final to Ireland’s Wayne McCullough, the 1990 Commonwealth Games flyweight champion, who then faced Casamayor in the final. Casamayor built up a big early lead in the first two rounds and won comfortably.

McCullough turned professional and in 1995 won the WBC bantamweight champion, retiring in 2008 with a career record of 27-7. Casamayor was expected to attempt an Olympic defense in 1996, but a few weeks before the Games started, while training with the Cuban team in Guadalajara, Mexico, he defected to the United States and turned professional. In 2000 he became the first Cuban to win a world professional title when he won the WBA super-featherweight belt. He held that title into 2002 and won various lightweight world championships from 2006-08. Still fighting as a pro at the end of 2011, his career record by then was 38 wins, 6 losses, and 1 draw.

PosCompetitorNOC
1Joel CasamayorCUBGold
2Wayne McCulloughIRLSilver
=3Li Gwang-SikPRKBronze
=3Mohamed AchikMARBronze
=5Mohammed SaboNGR
=5Serafim TodorovBUL
=5Roberto JalnaizPHI
=5Remigio MolinaARG
=9Ahmed AboudIRQ
=9Chatree SuwanyodTHA
=9Oscar ChongoZAM
=9Sergio Reyes, Jr.USA
=9Kalai RiadhTUN
=9Philippe WartelleFRA
=9Javier CalderónMEX
=9Slimane ZengliALG
=17Fred MutewetaUGA
=17Vladislav AntonovEUN
=17Robert CibaPOL
=17John SemPNG
=17Magno RuizGUA
=17László BognárHUN
=17Harold RamírezPUR
=17Miguel DiasNED
=17Devarajan VenkatesanIND
=17Agustín CastilloDOM
=17Jesús PérezCOL
=17Benjamin NgaruiyaKEN
=17Óscar VegaESP
=17Dieter BergGER
=17Zhang GuangpingCHN

Round One

Date28 July 1992
FormatWinner of each match advanced to the second round.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match #128 JulAhmed AboudIRQ
Match #228 JulWayne McCulloughIRLDecisionFred MutewetaUGA
Match #328 JulChatree SuwanyodTHADecisionVladislav AntonovEUN
Match #428 JulMohammed SaboNGRReferee stops contest (injured)Robert CibaPOL
Match #528 JulSerafim TodorovBULDecisionJohn SemPNG
Match #628 JulOscar ChongoZAMDecisionMagno RuizGUA
Match #728 JulLi Gwang-SikPRKRetiredLászló BognárHUN
Match #828 JulSergio Reyes, Jr.USADecisionHarold RamírezPUR
Match #928 JulKalai RiadhTUNDecisionMiguel DiasNED
Match #1028 JulJoel CasamayorCUBDecisionDevarajan VenkatesanIND
Match #1128 JulRoberto JalnaizPHIReferee stops contest (head blow)Agustín CastilloDOM
Match #1228 JulPhilippe WartelleFRADecisionJesús PérezCOL
Match #1328 JulJavier CalderónMEXDecisionBenjamin NgaruiyaKEN
Match #1428 JulRemigio MolinaARGDecisionÓscar VegaESP
Match #1528 JulMohamed AchikMARDecisionDieter BergGER
Match #1628 JulSlimane ZengliALGDecisionZhang GuangpingCHN

Round Two

Date1 August 1992
FormatWinner of each match advanced to the quarter-finals.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match #101 AugWayne McCulloughIRLDecisionAhmed AboudIRQ
Match #201 AugMohammed SaboNGRDecisionChatree SuwanyodTHA
Match #301 AugSerafim TodorovBULDecisionOscar ChongoZAM
Match #401 AugLi Gwang-SikPRKDecisionSergio Reyes, Jr.USA
Match #501 AugJoel CasamayorCUBDecisionKalai RiadhTUN
Match #601 AugRoberto JalnaizPHIReferee stops contest (injured)Philippe WartelleFRA
Match #701 AugRemigio MolinaARGDecisionJavier CalderónMEX
Match #801 AugMohamed AchikMARDecisionSlimane ZengliALG

Quarter-Finals

Date3 August 1992
FormatWinner of each match advanced to the semi-finals.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match #103 AugWayne McCulloughIRLDecisionMohammed SaboNGR
Match #203 AugLi Gwang-SikPRKDecisionSerafim TodorovBUL
Match #303 AugJoel CasamayorCUBKnock-outRoberto JalnaizPHI
Match #403 AugMohamed AchikMARDecisionRemigio MolinaARG

Semi-Finals

Date6 August 1992
FormatWinner of each match advanced to the final match.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match #106 AugWayne McCulloughIRLDecisionLi Gwang-SikPRK
Match #206 AugJoel CasamayorCUBRetiredMohamed AchikMAR

Final Round

Date8 August 1992
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match 1/208 AugJoel CasamayorCUBDecisionWayne McCulloughIRL