Featherweight boxing at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad | |||||||||||||||||
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Venue | Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena | ||||||||||||||||
Dates | 29 July – 11 August | ||||||||||||||||
Competitors | 36 from 36 nations | ||||||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||||||
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Boxing at the 1984 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 |
Super heavyweight | men |
The men's featherweight event was part of the boxing programme at the 1984 Summer Olympics. The weight class allowed boxers of up to 57 kilograms to compete. The competition was held from 29 July to 11 August 1984. 36 boxers from 36 nations competed. [1]
Boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics took place in the Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California, United States. The boxing schedule began on July 29 and ended on August 11. Twelve boxing events were contested with the participation of 354 fighters from 81 countries.
The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event that was held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, United States. This was the second time that Los Angeles had hosted the Games, the first being in 1932.
Gold | Meldrick Taylor |
Silver | Peter Konyegwachie |
Bronze | Omar Catarí |
Bronze | Turgut Aykaç |
The following boxers took part in the event: [1]
Rank | Name | Country |
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1 | Meldrick Taylor | |
2 | Peter Konyegwachie | |
3T | Omar Catarí | |
3T | Turgut Aykaç | |
5T | Park Hyeong-ok | |
5T | John Wanjau | |
5T | Mohamed Hegazi | |
5T | Charles Lubulwa | |
9T | Kevin Taylor | |
9T | Satoru Higashi | |
9T | Rajabu Hussen | |
9T | Javier Camacho | |
9T | Abraham Mieses | |
9T | Alexander Wassa | |
9T | Rafael Zuñiga | |
9T | Paul Fitzgerald | |
17T | Jonathan Magagula | |
17T | Nirmal Lorick | |
17T | Noureddine Boughanmi | |
17T | Azzedine Saïd | |
17T | Ed Pollard | |
17T | Christian Kpakpo | |
17T | Jean-Luc Bezoky | |
17T | Nicolae Talpoş | |
17T | Raúl Trapero | |
17T | Christopher Mwamba | |
17T | Ayi Sodogah | |
17T | Orlando Fernández | |
17T | Ali Faki | |
17T | Dieudonné Mzatsi | |
17T | Steve Pagendam | |
32T | Stamatios Kolethras | |
32T | Shane Knox | |
32T | Steve Frank | |
32T | Tobi Pelly | |
32T | Boubagar Soumana |
Ali Faki is a Malawian boxer. He competed in the men's featherweight event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Charles Lubulwa is a Ugandan boxer. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics, 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Shane Knox is an Australian boxer. He competed in the men's featherweight event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Kevin Taylor is a British boxer. He competed in the men's featherweight event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Jonathan Magagula is a Swazi boxer. He competed in the men's featherweight event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Nirmal Lorick is a Trinidad and Tobago boxer. He competed in the men's featherweight event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Satoru Higashi is a Japanese boxer. He competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics.
John Wanjau is a Kenyan boxer. He competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Rajabu Hussen is a Tanzanian boxer. He competed in the men's featherweight event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Meldrick Taylor is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1984 to 2002. He is a two-weight world champion, having held the IBF junior welterweight title from 1988 to 1990, and the WBA welterweight title from 1991 to 1992. As an amateur, Taylor won a gold medal in the featherweight division at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Peter Konyegwachie was a Nigerian boxer. He hails from Ogwashi-Uku. The town that also produced another sport(football) great, Austin "Jay Jay" Okocha.The town is the headquarters of Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria. He attended Adaigbo Secondary School. At the 1984 Summer Olympics he won Nigeria's first ever silver medal in the men's Featherweight (54–57 kg) category.
Omar Catarí Peraza is a former Venezuelan boxer. At the 1984 Summer Olympics he won the bronze medal in the men's featherweight division, along with Türgüt Aykaç of Turkey.
Türgüt Aykaç is a former boxer from Turkey. At the 1984 Summer Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the men's featherweight division, alongside Omar Catari of Venezuela. In the semifinals he was defeated by eventual silver medalist Peter Konyegwachie of Nigeria.
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