Light Heavyweight Olympic Medalists
(178 lbs/81 kb)
- 1896-1912 Not held
- 1920 - Antwerp, Belgium
Gold: Edward Eagan - USA
Silver: Sverre Sorsdal - Norway
Bronze: H. Franks - Great Britain
- 1924 - Paris, France
Gold: Harry Mitchell - Great Britain
Silver: Thyge Petersen - Denmark
Bronze: Sverre Sorsdal - Norway
- 1928 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Gold: Victor Avendano - Argentina
Silver: Ernst Pistulla - Germany
Bronze: Karel L. Miljon - Netherlands, The
- 1932 - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Gold: Dave Carstens - South Africa
Silver: Gino Rossi - Italy
Bronze: Peter Jorgensen - Denmark
- 1936 - Berlin, Germany
Gold: Roger Michelot - France
Silver: Richard Vogt - Germany
Bronze: Francisco Risiglione - Argentina
- 1948 - London, England
Gold: George Hunter - South Africa
Silver: Donald Scott - Great Britain
Bronze: Maurio Cia - Argentina
- 1952 - Helsinki, Finland
Gold: Norvel Lee - USA
Silver: Antonio Pacenza - Argentina
Bronze: Anatoli Perov - USSR
Bronze: Harri Siljander - Finland
- 1956 - Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Gold: Jim Boyd - USA
Silver: Gheorghe Negrea - Romania
Bronze: Carlos Lucas - Chile
Bronze: Romualdas Murauskas - USSR
- 1960 - Rome, Italy
Gold: Cassius Clay - USA
Silver: Zbigniew Pietrzykowski - Poland
Bronze: Tony Madigan - Australia
Bronze: Giulio Saraudi - Italy
- 1964 - Tokyo, Japan
Gold: Cosimo Pinto - Italy
Silver: Aleksei Kiselyov - USSR
Bronze: Aleksandar Nikolov - Bulgaria
Bronze: Zbigniew Pietrzykowski - Poland
- 1968 - Mexico City, Mexico
Gold: Daniel Poznyak - USSR
Silver: Ion Monea - Romania
Bronze: Stanislaw Dragan - Poland
Bronze: Georgi Stankov - Bulgaria
- 1972 - Munich, Germany
Gold: Mate Parlov - Yugoslavia
Silver: Gilberto Carrillo - Cuba
Bronze: Janusz Gortat - Poland
Bronze: Isaac Ikhouria - Nigeria
- 1976 - Montreal, QC, Canada
Gold: Leon Spinks - USA
Silver: Sixto Soria - Cuba
Bronze: Costica Dafinoiu - Romania
Bronze: Janusz Gortat - Poland
- 1980 - Moscow, Russia
Gold: Slobodan Kačar - Yugoslavia
Silver: Powel Skrecz - Poland
Bronze: Herbert Bauch - DDR
Bronze: Ricardo Rojas - Cuba
- 1984 - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Gold: Anton Josipovic - Yugoslavia
Silver: Kevin Barry - New Zealand
Bronze: Evander Holyfield - USA
Bronze: Mustapha Moussa, Algeria
- 1988 - Seoul, South Korea
Gold: Andrew Maynard - USA
Silver: Nurmagomed Shanavazov - USSR
Bronze: Henryk Petrich - Poland
Bronze: Damir Skaro - Yugoslavia
- 1992 - Barcelona, Spain
Gold: Torsten May - Germany
Silver: Rostislav Zaulichniy - Ukraine
Bronze: Zoltán Béres - Hungary
Bronze: Wojciech Bartnik, Poland
- 1996 - Atlanta, GA, USA
Gold: Vassiliy Jirov - Kazakstan
Silver: Lee Seung-Bae - South Korea
Bronze: Antonio Tarver - USA
Bronze: Thomas Ulrich - Germany
- 2000 - Sydney, NSW, Australia
Gold: Alexander Lebziak - Russia
Silver: Rudolf Kraj - Czech Republic
Bronze: Andriy Fedchuk - Ukraine
Bronze: Sergei Mikhailov - Uzbekistan
- 2004 - Peristeri Olympic Boxing Hall, Athens, Greece
Gold: Andre Ward - USA
Silver: Magomed Aripgadjiev - Belarus
Bronze: Ahmed Ismail - Egypt
Bronze: Utkirbek Haydarov - Uzbekistan
- 2008 - Beijing, People's Republic of China
Gold: Zhang Xiaoping - China
Silver: Kenneth Egan - Ireland
Bronze: Tony Jeffries - Great Britain
Bronze: Yerkebuian Shynaliyev - Kazakhstan
Also see: Olympics