Boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics

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Light heavyweight fight featuring Australian boxer Adrian Holmes Boxing at the
1948 Summer Olympics

Flyweight| men
Bantamweight| men
Featherweight| men
Lightweight| men
Welterweight| men
Middleweight| men
Light heavyweight| men
Heavyweight| men

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Final results for the Boxing competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics.[1]

## Medal summary

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Games  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Flyweight
(−51 kg)
details | Pascual Pérez
Argentina | Spartaco Bandinelli
Italy | Han Soo-Ann
South Korea
Bantamweight
(−54 kg)
details | Tibor Csík
Hungary | Gianbattista Zuddas
Italy | Juan Evangelista Venegas
Puerto Rico
Featherweight
(−58 kg)
details | Ernesto Formenti
Italy | Dennis Shepherd
South Africa | Aleksy Antkiewicz
Poland
Lightweight
(−62 kg)
details | Gerald Dreyer
South Africa | Joseph Vissers
Belgium | Svend Wad
Denmark
Welterweight
(−67 kg)
details | Július Torma
Czechoslovakia | Hank Herring
United States | Alessandro D'Ottavio
Italy
Middleweight
(−73 kg)
details | László Papp
Hungary | John Wright
Great Britain | Ivano Fontana
Italy
Light heavyweight
(−80 kg)
details | George Hunter
South Africa | Don Scott
Great Britain | Mauro Cía
Argentina
Heavyweight
(+80 kg)
details | Rafael Iglesias
Argentina | Gunnar Nilsson
Sweden | John Arthur
South Africa

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  South Africa (RSA)| 2| 1| 1| 4
2|  Argentina (ARG)| 2| 0| 1| 3
3|  Hungary (HUN)| 2| 0| 0| 2
4|  Italy (ITA)| 1| 2| 2| 5
5|  Czechoslovakia (TCH)| 1| 0| 0| 1
6|  Great Britain (GBR)| 0| 2| 0| 2
7|  Belgium (BEL)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Sweden (SWE)| 0| 1| 0| 1
United States (USA)| 0| 1| 0| 1
10|  Denmark (DEN)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Poland (POL)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Puerto Rico (PUR)| 0| 0| 1| 1
South Korea (KOR)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (13 entries)| 8| 8| 8| 24

## References

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1. ^ "Boxing at the 1948 London Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 28 April 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2018.

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Events at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London

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Boxing at the Summer Olympics

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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)
* 1968: Philip Waruinge (KEN)
* 1972: Teófilo Stevenson (CUB)
* 1976: Howard Davis Jr. (USA)
* 1980: Patrizio Oliva (ITA)
* 1984: Paul Gonzales (USA)
* 1988: Roy Jones Jr. (USA)
* 1992: Roberto Balado (CUB)
* 1996: Vassiliy Jirov (KAZ)
* 2000: Oleg Saitov (RUS)
* 2004: Bakhtiyar Artayev (KAZ)
* 2008: Vasiliy Lomachenko (UKR)
* 2012: Serik Sapiyev (KAZ)
* 2016: Hasanboy Dusmatov (UZB)

Women|

* 2016: Claressa Shields (USA)

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