Lightweight boxing at the Games of the XXI Olympiad | |||||||||||||||||
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Venue | Maurice Richard Arena, Montreal | ||||||||||||||||
Dates | 18–31 July | ||||||||||||||||
Competitors | 23 from 23 nations | ||||||||||||||||
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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 lightweight event was part of the boxing programme at the 1976 Summer Olympics. The weight class allowed boxers of up to 60 kilograms to compete. The competition was held from 18 to 31 July 1976. 23 boxers from 23 nations competed. [1]
Gold | Howard Davis United States |
Silver | Simion Cuțov Romania |
Bronze | Ace Rusevski Yugoslavia |
Bronze | Vassily Solomin Soviet Union |
The following boxers took part in the event: [1]
Rank | Name | Country |
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1 | Howard Davis | United States |
2 | Simion Cuțov | Romania |
3T | Ace Rusevski | Yugoslavia |
3T | Vassily Solomin | Soviet Union |
5T | Ove Lundby | Sweden |
5T | Tsvetan Tsvetkov | Bulgaria |
5T | András Botos | Hungary |
5T | Yves Jeudy | Haiti |
9T | Nelson Calzadilla | Venezuela |
9T | Bogdan Gajda | Poland |
9T | Leonidas Asprilla | Colombia |
9T | Georgios Agrimanakis | Greece |
9T | Parviz Bahmani | Iran |
9T | Reinaldo Valiente | Cuba |
15T | Ernesto González | Nicaragua |
15T | Khaidavyn Altankhuyag | Mongolia |
15T | Antonio Rubio | Spain |
15T | Sylvester Mittee | Great Britain |
15T | Hans Henrik Palm | Denmark |
15T | Yukio Segawa | Japan |
15T | Roberto Andino | Puerto Rico |
22T | Gaetano Pirastu | Italy |
22T | Gerard Hamill | Ireland |
Romania competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. 157 competitors, 103 men and 54 women, took part in 92 events in 11 sports.
Vassily Anatolyevich Solomin was a boxer who represented the Soviet Union at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. There, he won a bronze medal in the lightweight division, after being beaten in the semifinals by Romania's eventual silver medalist Simion Cuţov.
Simion Cuțov was a lightweight boxer from Romania who won the European amateur title in 1973 and 1975. He competed at the 1974 World Championships and 1976 and 1980 Olympics and won silver medals in 1974 and 1976. In 1974, he won a gold medal at the Balkan Games. He retired with a record of 20 losses out of 155 bouts. His elder brother Calistrat was also an Olympic boxer.
Ace Rusevski is a retired Macedonian boxer, who represented Yugoslavia at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. There he won the bronze medal in the lightweight division after being defeated in the semifinals by eventual gold medalist Howard Davis Jr. of the United States.
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