Alan Minter is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1972 to 1981. He held the undisputed middleweight title in 1980, having previously held the British middleweight from 1975 to 1976, and the European middleweight title twice between 1977 and 1979. As an amateur, Minter won a bronze medal in the light-middleweight division at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Teófilo Stevenson Lawrence was a Cuban amateur boxer and engineer. Stevenson is one of only three boxers to win three Olympic gold medals, alongside Hungarian László Papp and fellow Cuban Félix Savón.
Dale Walters is a Canadian former boxer who won a bantamweight bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Viktor Grigorievich Rybakov is a retired boxer, who represented the USSR twice at the Summer Olympics during his career as an amateur. He won the bronze medal in the bantamweight division at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and repeated that feat four years later in Moscow, Soviet Union. He trained at the Trud Voluntary Sports Society until 1976. Later he trained at the Armed Forces sports society.
Philip Waruinge is a retired boxer from Kenya, who competed in the featherweight division during his career as an amateur.
Ian Clyde is a retired boxer from Canada, who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics. After defeating Charlie Magri of Great Britain, he was defeated in the quarterfinals of the men's flyweight division by Cuba's eventual silver medalist Ramón Duvalón. Clyde won a silver medal at the 1978 Commonwealth Games and a bronze medal at the 1979 Pan American Games. He also competed at the 1975 Pan American Games. Ian Clyde has followed his career as a professional athlete to offer personal fitness boxing coaching and competitive boxing instruction to young athletes in Montreal.
Alfonso Pérez is a retired boxer from Colombia, who won the bronze medal in the men's lightweight division at the 1972 Summer Olympics. In 1971 he won the silver medal at the Pan American Games. He turned pro on April 6, 1973, and retired in 1981 after 40 bouts.
Howard Grant is a retired male Canadian boxer, competing in the light-welterweight division. A resident of Montréal, Quebec, he represented Canada at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, where he was defeated in the second round by Sweden's Lars Myrberg.
Rau'shee Warren is an American professional boxer who held the WBA (Undisputed) and IBO bantamweight titles from 2016 to 2017. As an amateur he won a gold medal at the 2007 World Championships, as well as bronze at the 2005 and 2011 World Championships, all in the flyweight division.
Chris Finnegan MBE was a British professional boxer of Irish descent born in Iver, Buckinghamshire, England.
Richard "Dick" McTaggart, MBE is a retired Scottish amateur boxer. He competed in the 1956 and 1960 Olympics in the lightweight division and won a gold and a bronze medal, respectively. In 1956 he received the Val Barker Trophy for best boxing style at the Olympics. At the 1964 Olympics McTaggart moved to the light-welterweight category, but lost in the third bout to the eventual winner Jerzy Kulej. McTaggart won the British ABA title in 1956, 1958, 1960, 1963 and 1965, and retired with a record of 610 wins out of 634 bouts.
Carmelo Ambrosio Robledo was an Argentine boxer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics and in the 1932 Summer Olympics.
Georgi Kostadinov is a former boxer from Bulgaria. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Emilio Correa is a Cuban former amateur boxer who won welterweight gold at the Olympics 1972. He is not to be confused with his middleweight namesake, who is actually his son.
The Golden Gloves in British Columbia, Canada has been a key amateur boxing tournament since its inception in 1939. The debut Golden Gloves champions in 1939 were Wayne Morris, Alan Dunn, Phil Vickery, Erick Burnell, Bob Hickey, Henry Devine and Kenny Lindsay. The first Golden Boy was Phil Vickery.
Freddy Fuller is an ex-amateur boxer from British Columbia, Canada. He was a member of the 1967 Canadian Pan Am Games boxing team, a several times Canadian Amateur Boxing Champion in the 1960s and 1970, and a member of the Canadian boxing team for the 1970 Commonwealth Games.
Eddie Haddad was a boxer primarily active in the 1940s in Manitoba and British Columbia. His first major international tournament was at the 1948 Olympic Games as a lightweight boxer where he lost in the quarterfinals to the eventual gold medalist, Joseph Vissers of Belgium. Haddad was also a Canadian team member of the 1950 British Empire Games.
Mark Simmons is a Canadian retired heavyweight boxer who represented Canada at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He was also a five-time Canadian National Champion, recording 201 wins in 241 recorded bouts.
Roger Adolph is a former boxer and former chief of the Xaxli' (Fountain) Reserve in British Columbia. He was born to Lawerence and Maggie Adolph, who were both elders of the fountain band and had first hand experience in the fountain area.
Julius Luipa was a Zambian boxer who won two silver medals at the Commonwealth Games, and also represented Zambia at the 1968 and 1972 Olympic Games. One of Zambia’s best amateur boxers, he was the country’s Sportsman of the Year in 1970 and when he turned professional four years later, he defeated George Chisenga to become Zambian light heavyweight champion and held the title until he was dethroned by Lottie Mwale in 1977.
