Boxing at the 1979 Pan American Games

Boxing at the 1979 Pan American Games
Boxing pictogram for the games
Venue	Trujillo Alto Coliseum, Roberto Clemente Coliseum
Dates	July 2–14, 1979
Competitors	114 from 19 nations
«1975 1983»

Boxing competitions at the 1979 Pan American Games in San Juan were held from July 2 to 14 at the Trujillo Alto Coliseum and the Roberto Clemente Coliseum. ^[1]

Competition schedule

The following was the schedule for the boxing competitions: ^[2]

P	Preliminaries	¼	Quarterfinals	½	Semifinals	F	Final

Event↓/Date →	Mon 2	Tue 3	Wed 4	Thu 5	Fri 6	Sat 7	Sun 8	Mon 9	Tue 10	Wed 11	Thu 12	Fri 13	Sat 14
Men's light flyweight				P			¼			½			F
Men's flyweight			P			¼				½			F
Men's bantamweight					P				¼		½		F
Men's featherweight	P				¼					½			F
Men's lightweight				P			¼			½			F
Men's light welterweight		P						¼			½		F
Men's welterweight			P					¼		½			F
Men's light middleweight						¼					½		F
Men's middleweight									¼		½		F
Men's light heavyweight											½		F
Men's heavyweight											½		F

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Puerto Rico)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba	5	0	2	7
2	United States	4	2	2	8
3	Puerto Rico*	2	4	1	7
4	Dominican Republic	0	1	4	5
5	Argentina	0	1	2	3
	Venezuela	0	1	2	3
7	Brazil	0	1	1	2
8	Jamaica	0	1	0	1
9	Canada	0	0	2	2
	Mexico	0	0	2	2
11	Chile	0	0	1	1
	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Ecuador	0	0	1	1
	Guyana	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		11	11	22	44

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light flyweight details	Héctor Ramírez   Cuba	Richard Sandoval   United States	Eduardo Burgos   Chile
			Gilberto Sosa   Mexico
Flyweight details	Alberto Mercado   Puerto Rico	Pedro Nolasco   Dominican Republic	Ian Clyde   Canada
			Jerome Coffee   United States
Bantamweight details	Jackie Beard   United States	Luis Pizarro   Puerto Rico	Héctor Lazaro   Cuba
			Santiago Caballero   Venezuela
Featherweight details	Bernard Taylor   United States	Naudy Piñero   Venezuela	Fernando Sosa   Argentina
			Felipe Orozco   Colombia
Lightweight details	Adolfo Horta   Cuba	Roberto Andino   Puerto Rico	Rafael Rodriguez   Dominican Republic
			Guillermo Fernández   Venezuela
Light welterweight details	Lemuel Steeples   United States	Hugo Hernández   Argentina	José Aguilar   Cuba
			Pedro Cruz   Puerto Rico
Welterweight details	Andrés Aldama   Cuba	Mike McCallum   Jamaica	José Baret   Dominican Republic
			Javier Colin   Mexico
Light middleweight details	José Angel Molina   Puerto Rico	James Shuler   United States	Francisco de Jesus   Brazil
			Jorge Amparo   Dominican Republic
Middleweight details	José Gómez Mustelier   Cuba	Carlos Fonseca   Brazil	Alfred Thomas   Guyana
			Oscar Florentín   Argentina
Light heavyweight details	Tony Tucker   United States	Dennis Jackson   Puerto Rico	Patrick Fennel   Canada
			Clemente Ortiz   Dominican Republic
Heavyweight details	Teófilo Stevenson   Cuba	Narciso Maldonado   Puerto Rico	Rufus Hadley   United States
			Luis Castillo   Ecuador

Participating nations

A total of 24 countries have qualified athletes. ^[3]

•   Argentina  (6 athletes)
•   Barbados  (2)
•   Bahamas  (4)
•   Belize  (3)
•   Brazil  (10)
•   Canada  (8)
•   Chile  (5)
•   Colombia  (5)
•   Cuba  (11)
•   Dominican Republic  (9)
•   Ecuador  (4)
•   El Salvador  (4)
•   Guyana  (5)
•   Jamaica  (2)
•   Mexico  (7)
•   Puerto Rico  (11)
•   United States  (11)
•   Venezuela  (5)
•   Virgin Islands  (2)

See also

• Boxing at the 1980 Summer Olympics

References

1. Memoria VIII Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos San Juan, Puerto Rico 1979 (PDF) (in Spanish). 1979 Pan American Games Organising Committee (COPAN 79). 1981. pp. 198, 204, 231. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-11. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
2. Memoria VIII Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos San Juan, Puerto Rico 1979 (PDF) (in Spanish). 1979 Pan American Games Organising Committee (COPAN 79). 1981. p. 293. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-11. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
3. Memoria VIII Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos San Juan, Puerto Rico 1979 (PDF) (in Spanish). 1979 Pan American Games Organising Committee (COPAN 79). 1981. pp. 290–291. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-11. Retrieved 2019-08-20.

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