Host city | Tampere |
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Country | Finland |
Nations | 22 |
Athletes | 171 |
Dates | 2–10 May |
The Men's 1981 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Tampere, Finland from May 2 to May 10, 1981. The 24th edition of the bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA. 171 fighters from 22 European countries participated in the competition. [1]
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Light Flyweight (– 48 kilograms) | Ismail Mustafov | Dietmar Geilich | Shamil Sabirov |
Flyweight (– 51 kilograms) | Petar Lesov | Constantin Titoiu | Bogdan Maczuga |
Bantamweight (– 54 kilograms) | Viktor Miroshnichenko | Sami Buzoli | Dumitru Cipere |
Featherweight (– 57 kilograms) | Richard Nowakowski | Krzysztof Kosedowski | Serik Nurkazov |
Lightweight (– 60 kilograms) | Viktor Rybakov | Carlo Russolillo | Vesa Wiik |
Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kilograms) | Vasiliy Shishov | Mirko Puzović | Nikolay Ganev |
Welterweight (– 67 kilograms) | Serik Konakbayev | Karl-Heinz Krueger | Tibor Molnár |
Light Middleweight (– 71 kilograms) | Alexandr Koshkin | Miodrag Perunović | Mikhail Takov |
Middleweight (– 75 kilograms) | Yuriy Torbek | Pedro van Raamsdonk | Zygmunt Gosiewski |
Light Heavyweight (– 81 kilograms) | Alexandr Krupin | Giorgica Donici | Ondrej Pustai |
Heavyweight (– 91 kilograms) | Alexandr Yagubkin | Juergen Fanghaenel | Ion Cernat |
Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kilograms) | Francesco Damiani | Vyacheslav Yakovlev | Ulli Kaden |
Host nation (Finland)
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Pos | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | |
1 | Soviet Union | 8 | 1 | 2 | 11 | |
2 | Bulgaria | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | |
3 | East Germany | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | |
4 | Italy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
5 | Yugoslavia | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
6 | Romania | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
7 | Poland | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
8 | Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
9 | Hungary | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
10 | Finland | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
West Germany | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||
12 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
Ireland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sweden | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
Total | 12 | 12 | 24 |
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