1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships

The Men's 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Budapest, Hungary from October 18 to October 26. The ninth edition of this competition, a year after the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, was organised by the world governing body for amateur boxing AIBA. The tournament saw the increase in the age limit of boxers from (32) years to (35) years of age.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	4	3	3	10
2	Russia (RUS)	4	2	1	7
3	Hungary (HUN)	2	0	0	2
4	Romania (ROU)	1	0	2	3
5	Georgia (GEO)	1	0	1	2
6	Germany (GER)	0	2	1	3
7	France (FRA)	0	1	1	2
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	1	1	2
9	Mongolia (MGL)	0	1	0	1
	Philippines (PHI)	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	0	1
12	Italy (ITA)	0	0	2	2
	Turkey (TUR)	0	0	2	2
14	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Armenia (ARM)	0	0	1	1
	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	1
	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 entries)		12	12	24	48

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light Flyweight (– 48 kilograms)	Maikro Romero Cuba	Roel Velasco Philippines	Rudolf Dydi Slovakia Daniel Petrov Bulgaria
Flyweight (– 51 kilograms)	Manuel Mantilla Cuba	Ilfat Razyapov Russia	Omar Andrés Narváez Argentina Bulat Jumadilov Kazakhstan
Bantamweight (– 54 kilograms)	Raimkul Malakhbekov Russia	Waldemar Font Cuba	Soner Karagöz Turkey Aram Ramazyan Armenia
Featherweight (– 57 kilograms)	István Kovács Hungary	Falk Huste Germany	Sayan Sanszat Russia Rusinelson Hardy Cuba
Lightweight (– 60 kilograms)	Aleksander Maletin Russia	Tumentsetseg Uitumen Mongolia	Koba Gogoladze Georgia Shin Eun-Chul South Korea
Light Welterweight (– 63,5 kilograms)	Dorel Simion Romania	Paata Gvasalia Russia	Tonton Semakala Sweden Lukáš Konecný Czech Republic
Welterweight (– 67 kilograms)	Oleg Saitov Russia	Sergiy Dzindziruk Ukraine	Juan Hernández Sierra Cuba Marian Simon Romania
Light Middleweight (– 71 kilograms)	Alfredo Duvergel Cuba	Yermakhan Ibraimov Kazakhstan	Ercüment Aslan Turkey Adrian Diaconu Romania
Middleweight (– 75 kilograms)	Zsolt Erdei Hungary	Ariel Hernández Cuba	Dirk Eigenbrodt Germany Jean-Paul Mendy France
Light Heavyweight (– 81 kilograms)	Aleksandr Lebziak Russia	Frédéric Serrat France	Isael Alvarez Cuba Stephen Kirk Ireland
Heavyweight (– 91 kilograms)	Félix Savón Cuba	Mike Hanke Germany	Giacobbe Fragomeni Italy Tue Bjørn Thomsen Denmark
Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kilograms)	Georgi Kandelaki Georgia	Alexis Rubalcaba Cuba	Sergei Liakhovich Belarus Paolo Vidoz Italy

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