Boxing at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Light middleweight

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Light middleweight boxing
at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Venue Boxing Hall, Munich
Dates28 August – 10 September
Competitors34 from 34 nations
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Dieter Kottysch Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany
Silver medal icon.svg Wiesław Rudkowski Flag of Poland (1928-1980).svg  Poland
Bronze medal icon.svg Alan Minter Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Bronze medal icon.svg Peter Tiepold Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany
  1968
1976  

The men's light middleweight event was part of the boxing programme at the 1972 Summer Olympics. The weight class allowed boxers of up to 71 kilograms to compete. The competition was held from 28 August to 10 September 1972. 34 boxers from 34 nations competed. [1]

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Medalists

Gold Dieter Kottysch
Flag of Germany.svg West Germany
Silver Wiesław Rudkowski
Flag of Poland (1928-1980).svg Poland
Bronze Alan Minter
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
Bronze Peter Tiepold
Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany

Results

The following boxers took part in the event: [1]

RankNameCountry
1 Dieter Kottysch Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany
2 Wiesław Rudkowski Flag of Poland (1928-1980).svg  Poland
3T Alan Minter Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
3T Peter Tiepold Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany
5T Loucif Hamani Flag of Algeria.svg  Algeria
5T Mohamed Majeri Pre-1999 Flag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia
5T Emeterio Villanueva Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico
5T Rolando Garbey Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba
9T Anthony Richardson Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
9T Valery Tregubov Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union
9T Evangelos Oikonomakos Flag of Greece (1970-1975).svg  Greece
9T Alan Jenkinson Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
9T Mikko Saarinen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland
9T Christy Elliott Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland
9T Nayden Stanchev Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg  Bulgaria
9T Im Jae-geun Flag of South Korea (1949-1984).png  South Korea
17T Svetomir Belić Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg  Yugoslavia
17T José Antonio Colon Flag of Puerto Rico (1952-1995).svg  Puerto Rico
17T Reggie Ford Flag of Guyana.svg  Guyana
17T Reggie Jones Flag of the United States.svg  United States
17T Nicolas Aquilino Flag of the Philippines (navy blue).svg  Philippines
17T Bonifacio Ávila Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia
17T Issoufou Habou Flag of Niger.svg  Niger
17T Michel Belliard Flag of France.svg  France
17T David Attan Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya
17T Ion Györffi Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg  Romania
17T Farouk Kesrouani Flag of Lebanon.svg  Lebanon
17T Alfredo Lemus Flag of Venezuela (1954-2006).png  Venezuela
17T Antonio Castellini Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
17T John Opio Flag of Uganda.svg  Uganda
17T Franz Csandl Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
32T Namkhain Tsend-Ayuush Flag of the People's Republic of Mongolia (1940-1992).svg  Mongolia
32T Ricky Barnor Flag of Ghana.svg  Ghana
32T Oumar Fall Flag of Senegal.svg  Senegal

First round

Second round

Reggie Jones was controversially eliminated in the second round of the light middleweight division ( 71 kg) by Valeri Tregubov of the Soviet Union in a fight he was generally accepted to have won. [2]

Third round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

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References

  1. 1 2 "Boxing at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Men's Light Middleweight". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  2. "Schande! Schande! Schande!". Time . 11 September 1972. Archived from the original on 5 December 2008. Retrieved 20 February 2009.