Alberto Mercado Monserrate is a former Jr. Featherweight boxer who was on the verge of fighting for a world title at least twice in his career.
Boxing at the 1980 Summer Olympics took place at the Indoor Stadium of the Olympiski Sports Complex in Moscow from 20 July to 2 August. Eleven boxing events were contested with the participation of 271 fighters from 51 countries.
Portugal competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR.
Shamil Altaevich Sabirov is a retired Russian light-flyweight boxer. He won gold medals at the 1979 European Championships and 1980 Olympics, becoming the only boxing champion from the Soviet Union at the Moscow Olympics.
Petar Lesov is a former Bulgarian boxer, who won the Flyweight Gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He is a two-time European champion in the flyweight division. Lesov is currently a boxing coach.
Hugh Russell was a Northern Irish professional boxer from the New Lodge area of Belfast who competed from 1981 to 1985. He held the British bantamweight title in 1983 and flyweight title from 1984 to 1985. As an amateur, he won bronze medals at the 1978 Commonwealth Games and the 1980 Summer Olympics, both in the flyweight division.
Harry Tañamor is an amateur boxer from Zamboanga City, Philippines best known to medal repeatedly on the world stage at light flyweight.
The flyweight was the lightest boxing weight class held as part of the boxing programme at the 1904 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on September 22, 1904. It was the first time the event, like all other boxing events, was held in Olympic competition.
Suban Pannon is a Thai amateur boxer who won a gold medal at the 1998 Asian Games.
Somjit Jongjohor is an amateur Thai boxer best known for winning gold medals in the flyweight division at the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships and at the Beijing 2008 Olympics.
Japhet Uutoni is a Namibian professional boxer in the light flyweight division. He was the 2005 Namibian sportsperson of the year in the Namibian newspaper and won a gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games by defeating England's Darren Langley on points (37-24). He also won a silver medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Gilberto Sosa is a Mexican former boxer who competed in the men's light flyweight division. He represented his native country at the 1979 Pan American Games, where he captured the bronze medal; at the 1979 Latin American Boxing Championship, where he also won the bronze medal, and at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
Henryk Średnicki was a Polish amateur boxer who represented his native country twice at the Summer Olympics, starting in 1976.
Philip Sutcliffe is an Irish politician, former boxer and two-time Olympian. He competed at the 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games. Additionally, he was the winner of four national titles in Ireland, two at bantamweight and one each at light flyweight and flyweight, as well as bronze medals in two successive European Amateur Boxing Championships, in Germany in 1977 and 1979.
Mikhail Surenovich Aloyan is a Russian professional boxer of Kurdish origin, who challenged for the WBO bantamweight title in 2018. As an amateur flyweight, Aloyan won gold medals at the 2010 European Championships, the 2011 and 2013 World Championships, and bronze at the 2009 World Championships and the 2012 Olympics.
The light flyweight boxing competition at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was held from 21 July to 2 August at the Olympiysky Sports Complex. 22 boxers from 22 nations competed.
The light heavyweight boxing competition at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was held from 26 July to 2 August at the Olympiysky Sports Complex. 19 boxers from 19 nations competed.
The welterweight boxing competition at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was held from 22 July to 2 August at the Olympiysky Sports Complex. 29 boxers from 29 nations competed.
Charles Lubulwa is a Ugandan former boxer. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics where he became the youngest Ugandan athlete to have competed at an Olympic Games, suffering a first round defeat. He also fought in the 1984 Summer Olympics, reaching the quarter-finals, and the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Thailand competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the nation's official debut in 1952, Thai athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, with the exception of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, because of its support of the US-led boycott.
