Light middleweight boxing at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad | |||||||||||||||||
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Venue | Alexander Memorial Coliseum | ||||||||||||||||
Dates | 23 July – 3 August 1996 | ||||||||||||||||
Competitors | 31 from 31 nations | ||||||||||||||||
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The light middleweight class in the boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics competition was the fourth-heaviest class at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. The weight class was open for boxers weighing more than 71 kilograms. The competition in the Alexander Memorial Coliseum started on 1996-07-20 and ended on 1996-08-04. [1]
Gold | David Reid ![]() |
Silver | Alfredo Duvergel ![]() |
Bronze | Karim Tulaganov ![]() |
Yermakhan Ibraimov ![]() |
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