Boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Boxing competitions

Boxing

at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad

Venue| Jamsil Students' Gymnasium
Dates| 17 September-2 October 1988
Competitors| 432 from 106 nations

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Boxing at the
1988 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
Super heavyweight| men

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Korean boxers' uniforms at the games

Boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place in the Jamsil Students' Gymnasium in Seoul between 17 September and 2 October. Twelve men's individual boxing events were contested, attended by 432 athletes and 159 officials from 106 countries.[1] The events were notable for a controversial decision in the light middleweight championship bout between American Roy Jones Jr. and South Korean Park Si-Hun, when Roy Jones was denied gold despite being considered vastly superior by observers.[2][3][4]

## Medalists

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Games  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Light flyweight
(– 48 kg)
details | Ivailo Marinov
Bulgaria | Michael Carbajal
United States | Leopoldo Serantes
Philippines
Róbert Isaszegi
Hungary
Flyweight
(– 51 kg)
details | Kim Kwang-sun
South Korea | Andreas Tews
East Germany | Mario González
Mexico
Timofey Skryabin
Soviet Union
Bantamweight
(– 54 kg)
details | Kennedy McKinney
United States | Aleksandar Khristov
Bulgaria | Jorge Eliécer Julio
Colombia
Phajol Moolsan
Thailand
Featherweight
(– 57 kg)
details | Giovanni Parisi
Italy | Daniel Dumitrescu
Romania | Lee Jae-hyuk
South Korea
Abdelhak Achik
Morocco
Lightweight
(– 60 kg)
details | Andreas Zülow
East Germany | George Cramne
Sweden | Nergüin Enkhbat
Mongolia
Romallis Ellis
United States
Light welterweight
(– 63.5 kg)
details | Vyacheslav Yanovski
Soviet Union | Grahame Cheney
Australia | Lars Myrberg
Sweden
Reiner Gies
West Germany
Welterweight
(– 67 kg)
details | Robert Wangila
Kenya | Laurent Boudouani
France | Jan Dydak
Poland
Kenneth Gould
United States
Light middleweight
(– 71 kg)
details | Park Si-hun
South Korea | Roy Jones Jr.
United States | Raymond Downey
Canada
Richard Woodhall
Great Britain
Middleweight
(– 75 kg)
details | Henry Maske
East Germany | Egerton Marcus
Canada | Chris Sande
Kenya
Hussain Shah
Pakistan
Light heavyweight
(– 81 kg)
details | Andrew Maynard
United States | Nurmagomed Shanavazov
Soviet Union | Damir Škaro
Yugoslavia
Henryk Petrich
Poland
Heavyweight
(– 91 kg)
details | Ray Mercer
United States | Baik Hyun-man
South Korea | Andrzej Golota
Poland
Arnold Vanderlyde
Netherlands
Super heavyweight
(+ 91 kg)
details | Lennox Lewis
Canada | Riddick Bowe
United States | Aleksandr Miroshnichenko
Soviet Union
Janusz Zarenkiewicz
Poland

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  United States (USA)| 3| 3| 2| 8
2|  South Korea (KOR)| 2| 1| 1| 4
3|  East Germany (GDR)| 2| 1| 0| 3
4|  Soviet Union (URS)| 1| 1| 2| 4
5|  Canada (CAN)| 1| 1| 1| 3
6|  Bulgaria (BUL)| 1| 1| 0| 2
7|  Kenya (KEN)| 1| 0| 1| 2
8|  Italy (ITA)| 1| 0| 0| 1
9|  Sweden (SWE)| 0| 1| 1| 2
10|  Australia (AUS)| 0| 1| 0| 1
France (FRA)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Romania (ROU)| 0| 1| 0| 1
13|  Poland (POL)| 0| 0| 4| 4
14|  Colombia (COL)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Great Britain (GBR)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Hungary (HUN)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Mexico (MEX)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Mongolia (MGL)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Morocco (MAR)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Netherlands (NED)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Pakistan (PAK)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Philippines (PHI)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Thailand (THA)| 0| 0| 1| 1
West Germany (FRG)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Yugoslavia (YUG)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (25 entries)| 12| 12| 24| 48

## References

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1. ^ "Boxing at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
2. ^ Mamet, David (7 October 1988). "In Losing, a Boxer Won". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 April 2010.
3. ^ "Sports of The Times – Nice Gesture Substitutes For Justice – NYTimes.com". Query.nytimes.com. 26 September 1997. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
4. ^ "Seoul Games scarred by riots". in.rediff.com. Retrieved 22 August 2008.

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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)
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* 1980: Patrizio Oliva (ITA)
* 1984: Paul Gonzales (USA)
* 1988: Roy Jones Jr. (USA)
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* 1996: Vassiliy Jirov (KAZ)
* 2000: Oleg Saitov (RUS)
* 2004: Bakhtiyar Artayev (KAZ)
* 2008: Vasiliy Lomachenko (UKR)
* 2012: Serik Sapiyev (KAZ)
* 2016: Hasanboy Dusmatov (UZB)

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* 2016: Claressa Shields (USA)

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