Boxing at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Dates 27 August – 10 September 1972
Medal Events 11

The 1972 boxing tournament was held at the Boxhalle in Olympiapark in München, later to be known as the Olympia-Eissportzentrum. This was an indoor arena constructed for the 1972 Olympics, which also hosted judo competition. As in 1968 there were 11 events held in 1972 boxing.

The big story in boxing at München was the emergence of Cuba as a dominant nation. Cuban boxers won three gold medals and five medals in 1972, led by their heavyweight Teófilo Stevenson, who won the first of his three consecutive gold medals in the heaviest class, and was awarded the Val Barker Trophy as the top boxer of the Olympic tournament. The Soviet Union won only two medals, but both of them were gold. Hungary and Poland each won four medals, with both winning one gold medal.

The United States had one of its worst Olympic boxing performances in memory, winning only one event, that the light-welterweight by Ray Seales, adding three additional bronze medals. Of the 1972 boxing gold medalists, only Yugoslavian light-hearvyweight Mate Parlov would have a top professional career.

Events

Event Status Date Participants NOCs
Light-Flyweight (≤48 kilograms), Men Olympic 28 August – 10 September 1972 31 31
Flyweight (≤51 kilograms), Men Olympic 27 August – 10 September 1972 36 36
Bantamweight (≤54 kilograms), Men Olympic 27 August – 10 September 1972 38 38
Featherweight (≤57 kilograms), Men Olympic 27 August – 10 September 1972 45 45
Lightweight (≤60 kilograms), Men Olympic 27 August – 10 September 1972 37 37
Light-Welterweight (≤63.5 kilograms), Men Olympic 30 August – 10 September 1972 32 32
Welterweight (≤67 kilograms), Men Olympic 28 August – 10 September 1972 37 37
Light-Middleweight (≤71 kilograms), Men Olympic 28 August – 10 September 1972 34 34
Middleweight (≤75 kilograms), Men Olympic 29 August – 10 September 1972 22 22
Light-Heavyweight (≤81 kilograms), Men Olympic 28 August – 10 September 1972 28 28
Heavyweight (>81 kilograms), Men Olympic 3 – 10 September 1972 14 14
354 (354/0) 80 (80/0)

Medals

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Light-Flyweight, Men György GedóHUN Kim U-GilPRK Dacal Rodríguez
Ralph Evans
ESP
GBR
Flyweight, Men Georgi KostadinovBUL Leo RwabwogoUGA Douglas Rodríguez
Leszek Błażyński
CUB
POL
Bantamweight, Men Orlando MartínezCUB Alfonso ZamoraMEX George Turpin
Ricardo Carreras
GBR
USA
Featherweight, Men Boris KuznetsovURS Philip WaruingeKEN Clemente Rojas
András Botos
COL
HUN
Lightweight, Men Jan SzczepańskiPOL László OrbánHUN Alfonso Pérez
Samuel Mbugua
COL
KEN
Light-Welterweight, Men Ray SealesUSA Angel AngelovBUL Issaka Daboré
Zvonko Vujin
NIG
YUG
Welterweight, Men Emilio CorreaCUB János KajdiHUN Dick Murunga
Jesse Valdez
KEN
USA
Light-Middleweight, Men Dieter KottyschFRG Wiesław RudkowskiPOL Alan Minter
Peter Tiepold
GBR
GDR
Middleweight, Men Vyacheslav LemeshevURS Reima VirtanenFIN Prince Amartey
Marvin Johnson
GHA
USA
Light-Heavyweight, Men Mate ParlovYUG Gilberto CarrilloCUB Isaac Ikhouria
Janusz Gortat
NGR
POL
Heavyweight, Men Teófilo StevensonCUB Ion AlexeROU Peter Hussing
Hasse Thomsén
FRG
SWE

Medal table

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
Cuba CUB 3 1 1 5
Soviet Union URS 2 0 0 2
Hungary HUN 1 2 1 4
Poland POL 1 1 2 4
Bulgaria BUL 1 1 0 2
United States USA 1 0 3 4
West Germany FRG 1 0 1 2
Yugoslavia YUG 1 0 1 2
Kenya KEN 0 1 2 3
Democratic People's Republic of Korea PRK 0 1 0 1
Finland FIN 0 1 0 1
Mexico MEX 0 1 0 1
Romania ROU 0 1 0 1
Uganda UGA 0 1 0 1
Great Britain GBR 0 0 3 3
Colombia COL 0 0 2 2
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