Light welterweight boxing at the Games of the XX Olympiad | |||||||||||||||||
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Venue | Boxing Hall, Munich | ||||||||||||||||
Dates | 30 August – 10 September 1972 | ||||||||||||||||
Competitors | 32 from 32 nations | ||||||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||||||
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Boxing at the 1972 Summer Olympics | |
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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 |
The men's light welterweight event was part of the boxing programme at the 1972 Summer Olympics. The weight class allowed boxers of up to 63.5 kilograms to compete. The competition was held from 30 August to 10 September 1972. 32 boxers from 32 nations competed. [1]
Gold | Ray Seales United States |
Silver | Angel Angelov Bulgaria |
Bronze | Issake Dabore Niger |
Bronze | Zvonimir Vujin Yugoslavia |
The following boxers took part in the event: [1]
Rank | Name | Country |
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1 | Ray Seales | United States |
2 | Angel Angelov | Bulgaria |
3T | Issake Dabore | Niger |
3T | Zvonimir Vujin | Yugoslavia |
5T | Andrés Molina | Cuba |
5T | Graham Moughton | Great Britain |
5T | Bantow Srisook | Thailand |
5T | Kyoji Shinohara | Japan |
9T | Jim Montague | Ireland |
9T | Anatoly Kamnev | Soviet Union |
9T | Emilio Villa | Colombia |
9T | Sodnomyn Gombo | Mongolia |
9T | Walter Gómez | Argentina |
9T | Calistrat Cuțov | Romania |
9T | Park Tae-sik | South Korea |
9T | Laudiel Negrón | Puerto Rico |
17T | Nosra Vakil Monfard | Iran |
17T | Ulrich Beyer | East Germany |
17T | Roy Johnson | Bermuda |
17T | Pentti Saarman | Finland |
17T | Timsah Okalo Mulwal | Sudan |
17T | Malang Balouch | Pakistan |
17T | Robert Mwakosya | Tanzania |
17T | Yotham Kunda | Zambia |
17T | Luis Contreras | Venezuela |
17T | Krzysztof Pierwieniecki | Poland |
17T | Ernesto Bergamasco | Italy |
17T | Mohamed Muruli | Uganda |
17T | Abdou Fall | Senegal |
17T | Emmanuel Lawson | Ghana |
17T | Obisia Nwakpa | Nigeria |
17T | Fekrou Gabreselassie | Ethiopia |
Issake Dabore was a boxer from Niger who mainly fought in the light-welterweight and welterweight weight classes. Dabore competed at three Olympics; Tokyo 1964, Mexico City 1968 and Munich 1972. He was the first Nigerien person to compete at the Olympics and the first Nigerien to win an Olympic medal. Dabore won his Olympic medal at the 1972 Munich Olympics, where he won a bronze medal in the men's light-welterweight.
Zvonimir "Zvonko" Vujin was a Serbian amateur boxer. He competed in the 1968 and 1972 Olympics for Yugoslavia and won bronze medals on both occasions. In 1967 he won a silver medal at the European championships and a gold at the Mediterranean Games. He died on 8 December 2019 in his hometown, Zrenjanin.
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