Light flyweight boxing at the Games of the XXI Olympiad | |||||||||||||||||
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Venue | Maurice Richard Arena, Montreal | ||||||||||||||||
Dates | 19–31 July | ||||||||||||||||
Competitors | 27 from 27 nations | ||||||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||||||
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Boxing at the 1976 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 flyweight event was part of the boxing programme at the 1976 Summer Olympics. The weight class was the lightest contested, and allowed boxers of up to 48 kilograms to compete. The competition was held from 19 to 31 July 1976. 27 boxers from 27 nations competed. [1]
There were eleven boxing events at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The competition was held from 18 to 31 July with the participation of 266 fighters from 54 countries.
The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially called the Games of the XXI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event in Montreal, Canada, in 1976, and the first Olympic Games held in Canada.
Gold | Jorge Hernández |
Silver | Ri Byong-uk |
Bronze | Orlando Maldonado |
Bronze | Payao Pooltarat |
The following boxers took part in the event: [1]
Rank | Name | Country |
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1 | Jorge Hernández | |
2 | Ri Byong-uk | |
3T | Orlando Maldonado | |
3T | Payao Pooltarat | |
5T | Armando Guevara | |
5T | Héctor Patri | |
5T | György Gedó | |
5T | Park Chan-hui | |
9T | Dietmar Geilich | |
9T | Oleksandr Tkachenko | |
9T | Brendan Dunne | |
9T | Ali Canay | |
9T | Henryk Średnicki | |
9T | Serdambyn Batsükh | |
9T | Mohamed Said Abdel Wehab | |
9T | Zoffa Yarawi | |
17T | Eduardo Baltar | |
17T | Louis Curtis | |
17T | Remus Cosma | |
17T | Sayed Bashiri | |
17T | Noboru Uchiyama | |
17T | Sidney McKnight | |
17T | Eleoncio Mercedes | |
17T | Enrique Rodríguez | |
17T | José Leroy | |
17T | Abderrahim Najm | |
17T | Beykhan Fuchedzhiev |
Ramón Armando Guevara is a former boxer from Venezuela, who twice competed at the Summer Olympics: 1976 and 1980. He won the bronze medal at the 1978 World Amateur Boxing Championships in the light flyweight division.
Eduardo Baltar is a Filipino Olympic boxer. He represented his country in the light-flyweight division at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He lost his first match against Armando Guevara.
Sidney McKnight is a retired boxer from Canada, who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics. There he was defeated in the first round of the men's light flyweight division by eventual silver medalist Li Byong-Uk from North Korea.
Dietmar Geilich is an East German Olympic boxer. He represented his country in the light-flyweight division at the 1976 Summer Olympics, as well as the 1980 Summer Olympics. He lost his first match against Armando Guevara in 1976. In 1980, he defeated Birender Singh Thapa in his first match, defeated Pedro Manuel Nieves in his second, and then lost to Shamil Sabirov, the eventual gold medalist, in his third bout.
Henryk Średnicki was a Polish amateur boxer who represented his native country twice at the Summer Olympics, starting in 1976.
Payao Poontarat was a Thai boxer who, at the age of 18, won the bronze medal in the men's Light flyweight (-48 kg) category at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He was the first Thai to win an Olympic medal.
György Gedó is a retired Hungarian light-flyweight boxer. He competed in the 1968, 1972, 1976 and 1980 Olympics and won a gold medal in 1972. He was the European light-flyweight champion in 1969 and 1971. Gedó is Jewish.
Orlando Maldonado is a retired boxer from Puerto Rico, who won the bronze medal in the men's light flyweight division at the 1976 Summer Olympics. It was the second medal ever for Puerto Rico, after boxer Juan Evangelista Venegas captured the Bronze medal in 1948.
Héctor Patri is an Argentine Olympic boxer. He represented his country in the light-flyweight division at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He won his first match against Alodji Edoh. He won his second match over Mohamed Said Abdel Wehab. He lost his third match against Orlando Maldonado.
Jorge Hernández is a retired boxer from Cuba, who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. There he won the gold medal in the light flyweight division by defeating North Korea's Li Byong-Uk in the final. Four years later, when Moscow hosted the Games, he was eliminated in the second round of the flyweight division.
North Korea competed as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Thailand competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 42 competitors, 39 men and 3 women, took part in 33 events in 11 sports.
Light flyweight, also known as junior flyweight or super strawweight, is a weight class in boxing.
Lee Byeong-wook is a retired North Korean boxer, who won two Olympic medals in the men's Light Flyweight (48 kg) category.
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