The boxing competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney was held at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour. The event was only open to men and bouts were contested over four rounds of two minutes each. Five judges scored the fighters in real time and the boxer with the most points at the end was the winner.
Mohamed Allalou is an Algerian boxer. He competed in the Men's Light Welterweight division at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal. He also twice participated in the Summer Olympics, starting in 1996.
Puerto Rico competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. 29 competitors, 23 men and 6 women, took part in 31 events in 10 sports.
Canada competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. 107 competitors, 97 men and 10 women, took part in 74 events in 13 sports.
David Dejiro Defiagbon was a Nigerian boxer. Nicknamed "The Dream", Defiagbon fought for Canada and won the heavyweight silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Andrés Aldama Cabrera is a retired amateur Cuban boxer, who won the light welterweight silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the Welterweight gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Patrizio Oliva is an Italian former boxer, who won the gold medal in the light welterweight division at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as an amateur and the WBA light welterweight title as a professional.
Grahame Francis "Spike" Cheney was an Australian boxer, who won a light welterweight (63.5 kg) silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Michael Vincent "Mike" Strange is a retired boxer from Canada, competing in the light welterweight division. He represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992 in Barcelona, Spain.
Victor Zilberman is a retired boxer from Romania.
Jochen Bachfeld is a retired boxer from East Germany, who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. There he won the gold medal in the welterweight division after defeating Pedro Gamarro of Venezuela in the final.
Pedro Gamarro was an Venezuelan amateur boxer.
Ace Rusevski is a retired Macedonian boxer, who represented Yugoslavia at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. There he won the bronze medal in the lightweight division after being defeated in the semifinals by eventual gold medalist Howard Davis Jr. of the United States.
Mujandjae Kasuto is a Namibian amateur boxer who has competed twice at the Olympics.
Mohammad Bashir was a wrestler from Pakistan, who won the bronze medal in freestyle wrestling in the welterweight class (73 kg) at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.Bashir is the only Pakistani wrestler to have won a medal at the Olympic Games.
Siegfried Mehnert is a former amateur boxer from East Germany. He is best known for twice winning the European title in the men's welterweight division. He also competed at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
John "Big Joe" Sichula, was a Zambian amateur featherweight and professional super feather/light/light welterweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who as an amateur qualified for the Boxing at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, won a bronze medal at featherweight at the 1978 All-Africa Games, won the silver medal at featherweight in the Boxing at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada losing the final against Azumah Nelson of Ghana, and as a professional won the African Boxing Union (ABU) lightweight title, ABU super featherweight title, and Commonwealth Super featherweight title (3-occasions), and was a challenger for the All African Super Featherweight Title against Sam Akromah, his professional fighting weight varied from 127 3⁄4 lb, i.e. super featherweight to 135 1⁄2 lb, i.e. light welterweight.
Heidy Marleny Juárez Guzmán is a Guatemalan taekwondo practitioner, who competed in the women's welterweight category. She picked up a total of eight medals in her career, including a silver from the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and a bronze from the 1995 World Taekwondo Championships in Manila, Philippines, and finished fourth in the 67-kg division at the 2004 Summer Olympics, narrowly missing a chance to become Guatemala's first ever Olympic medalist in history.
Anthony Mwamba is a Zambian boxer. He competed in the men's light welterweight event at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Mwamba won a bronze medal in the welterweight (67 kg) division at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.
