Boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics

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Light heavyweight fight featuring Australian boxer Adrian Holmes

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

Medal summary

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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

Participating nations

A total of 206 boxers from 39 nations competed at the London Games:

•   Argentina  (8)
•   Australia  (7)
•   Austria  (5)
•   Belgium  (8)
•   Brazil  (3)
•   Burma  (2)
•   Canada  (7)
•   Ceylon  (4)
•   Chile  (5)
•   Czechoslovakia  (5)
•   Denmark  (6)
•   Egypt  (5)
•   Finland  (6)
•   France  (8)
•   Great Britain  (8)
•   Hungary  (6)
•   India  (7)
•   Iran  (8)
•   Ireland  (8)
•   Italy  (8)
•   Jamaica  (1)
•   South Korea  (3)
•   Lebanon  (1)
•   Luxembourg  (4)
•   Mexico  (1)
•   Netherlands  (6)
•   Norway  (4)
•   New Zealand  (1)
•   Pakistan  (3)
•   Peru  (4)
•   Philippines  (5)
•   Poland  (6)
•   Puerto Rico  (3)
•   South Africa  (8)
•   Spain  (8)
•   Switzerland  (4)
•   Sweden  (4)
•   Uruguay  (8)
•   United States  (8)

References

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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