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Thomas Glesby (born July 17, 1969) is a Canadian former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2001. As an amateur, he competed at the Summer Olympics: in 1988 and 1992. Nicknamed "The Bomb" he won the bronze medal in the men's heavyweight division at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba.
Below is the record of Tom Glesby, a Canadian heavyweight boxer who competed at the 1988 Seoul Olympics:
Lennox Claudius Lewis is a boxing commentator and former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2003. He is a three-time world heavyweight champion, a two-time lineal champion, and held the undisputed championship. Holding dual British and Canadian citizenship, Lewis represented Canada as an amateur at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics; in the latter, he won a gold medal in the super-heavyweight division. Lewis is regarded by many as one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time, and one of the greatest British fighters of all time.
Kirk Cyron Johnson is a Canadian former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2010, and challenged once for the WBA heavyweight title in 2002.
Andrew Maynard is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2000. As an amateur boxer, he won the gold medal in the Light Heavyweight division at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
Troy Amos-Ross is a Guyanese-Canadian retired professional boxer. As an amateur, he competed in the light heavyweight division at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
Richard Nowakowski is a retired boxer from East Germany, who won the silver medal in the men's featherweight division at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. There he was defeated in the final by Ángel Herrera of Cuba.
Herbert Bauch is a retired boxer, who represented East Germany at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. There he won the bronze medal in the light heavyweight division, after being defeated in the semifinals by eventual gold medalist Slobodan Kačar of Yugoslavia. Two years earlier he captured the bronze medal at the second World Championships in Belgrade.
Donald Emerson Scott was a boxer from Great Britain, who competed in the Light Heavyweight division during his career as an amateur. He fought as Don Scott.
Vadim Mikhaylovich Yemelyanov was a Soviet heavyweight boxer who won a bronze medal at the 1964 Olympics.
Alexander Nikolov is a boxer from Bulgaria. He competed for Bulgaria in the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan in the light-heavyweight event where he finished in third place.
Tom Bogs was a Danish boxer who competed in the middleweight division.
Justann John Crawford is a retired indigenous Australian Olympic boxer. Justann earned 9 international gold medals and represented Australia at the 1992, 1996 Olympic Games and 1994 Commonwealth Games. He also held 9 Australian boxing titles mainly in the middleweight division, or in the light heavyweight division.
Mark Simmons is a professional boxing referee and a former 4 time Canadian senior National Champion, who boxed in the heavyweight division at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. As an amateur boxer, he had a record of 201 wins in 241 recorded bouts.
George Oywello was a Ugandan boxer. Born in Gulu, Uganda, Oywello competed for Uganda in both the 1960 Olympics in Rome and the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. In 1964 boxing in the heavyweight competition he was beaten by eventual gold medal winner, Joe Frazier. He died in a car accident in 1965.
Andrew McDonald "Andy" Straughn is a British former boxer who won three consecutive ABA titles, represented the UK at the 1980 Summer Olympics and went on to a professional career which included winning the British cruiserweight title.
Michaelo Francis "Mika" Masoe Fao is an American Samoan boxer.
Christopher "Chris" Collins is retired male amateur boxer from Grenada who fought at the 1984 Summer Olympics in the men's Middleweight division, and later at the 1988 Summer Olympics as a Light Heavyweight. He represented Grenada at the 1987 Pan American Games.
Tshibalabala Kadima is a boxer from Zaire, who competed in the super-heavyweight division at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Kadima lost his opening bout to Andreas Schnieders of West Germany. Kadima won the silver medal in the super-heavyweight division at the 1987 All-Africa Games, losing to Chris Odera of Kenya in the final.
Enrique Villarreal is a Mexican boxer. He competed in the men's light heavyweight event at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Claus Børge Nielsen is a Danish boxer. He competed in the men's heavyweight event at the 1988 Summer Olympics. At the 1988 Summer Olympics, he lost to Tom Glesby of Canada.
The men's super heavyweight event was part of the boxing programme at the 1988 Summer Olympics. The weight class allowed boxers of more than 91 kilograms to compete. The competition was held from 22 September to 2 October 1988. 17 boxers from 17 nations competed.
