Lightweight Olympic Medalists
(xxx lbs/xx kb)
- 1896-1900 Not held
- 1904 - St. Louis, MO, USA
Gold: Harry Spanger - USA
Silver: James Jack Eagan - USA
Bronze: Russell van Horn - USA
- 1908 - London, England
Gold: Frederick Grace - Great Britain
Silver: Frederick Spiller - Great Britain
Bronze: Harry Johnson - Great Britain
- 1912 Not held
- 1920 - Antwerp, Belgium
Gold: Samuel Mosberg - USA
Silver: Gotfred Johansen - Denmark
Bronze: Clarence Newton - Canada
- 1924 - Paris, France
Gold: Hans Jacob Nielsen - Denmark
Silver: Alfredo Copello - Argentina
Bronze: Frederick Boylstein - USA
- 1928 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Gold: Carlo Orlandi - Italy
Silver: Steve Halaiko - USA
Bronze: Gunnar Berggren - Sweden
- 1932 - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Gold: Lawrence Stevens - South Africa
Silver: Thure Ahlqvist - Sweden
Bronze: Nathan Bor - USA
- 1936 - Berlin, Germany
Gold: Imre Harangi - Hungary
Silver: Nikolai Stepulov - Estonia
Bronze: Erik Agren - Sweden
- 1948 - London, England
Gold: Gerald Dreyer - South Africa
Silver: Joseph Vissers - Belgium
Bronze: Svend Wad - Denmark
- 1952 - Helsinki, Finland
Gold: Aureliano Bolognesi - Italy
Silver: Aleksy Antkiewicz - Poland
Bronze: Erkki Pakkanen - Finland
Bronze: Gheorghe Fiat - Romania
- 1956 - Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Gold: Richard McTaggart - Great Britain
Silver: Harry Kurschat - Germany
Bronze: Anatoli Lagetko - USSR
Bronze: Anthony Byrne - Ireland
- 1960 - Rome, Italy
Gold: Kazimierz Pazdzior - Poland
Silver: Sandro Lopopolo - Italy
Bronze: Richard McTaggart - Great Britain
Bronze: Abel Ricardo Laudonio - Argentina
- 1964 - Tokyo, Japan
Gold: Jozef Grudzien - Poland
Silver: Vellikton Barannikov - USSR
Bronze: Jim McCourt - Ireland
Bronze: Ronald Allen Harris - USA
- 1968 - Mexico City, Mexico
Gold: Ronald Harris - USA
Silver: Jozef Grudzien - Poland
Bronze: Zvonimir Vujin - Yugoslavia
Bronze: Calistrat Cutov - Romania
- 1972 - Munich, Germany
Gold: Jan Szczepanski - Poland
Silver: László Orbán - Hungary
Bronze: Samuel Mbugua - Kenya
Bronze: Alfonso Perez - Colombia
- 1976 - Montreal, QC, Canada
Gold: Howard Davis - USA
Silver: Simion Cutov - Romania
Bronze: Ace Rusevski - Yugoslavia
Bronze: Vassily Solomin - USSR
- 1980 - Moscow, Russia
Gold: Angel Herrera - Cuba
Silver: Viktor Demyanenko - USSR
Bronze: Kazimierz Adach - Poland
Bronze: Richard Nowakowski - DDR
- 1984 - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Gold: Pernell Whitaker - USA
Silver: Luis Francisco Ortiz - Puerto Rico
Bronze: Chun Chil-Sung - Korea
Bronze: Martin N'Dongo - Kameroun
- 1988 - Seoul, South Korea
Gold: Andreas Zülow - DDR
Silver: George Cramne - Sweden
Bronze: Nerguy Enkhbat - Mongolia
Bronze: Romallis Ellis - USA
- 1992 - Barcelona, Spain
Gold: Oscar De La Hoya - USA
Silver: Marco Rudolph - Germany
Bronze: Namjil Bayarsaikhan - Mongolia
Bronze: Hong Sung-Sik - Korea
- 1996 - Atlanta, GA, USA
Gold: Hocine Soltani - Algeria
Silver: Tontcho Tontchev - Bulgaria
Bronze: Terrance Cauthen - USA
Bronze: Leonard Dorin - Romania
- 2000 - Sydney, NSW, Australia
Gold: Mario Kindelán - Cuba
Silver: Andriy Kotelnik - Ukrainie
Bronze: Cristián Bejarano - Mexico
Bronze: Alexandr Maletin - Russia
- 2004 - Peristeri Olympic Boxing Hall, Athens, Greece
Gold: Mario César Kindelán Mesa - Cuba
Silver: Amir Khan - Great Britain
Bronze: Serik Yeleuov - Kazakstan
Bronze: Murat Khrachev - Russia
Also see: Olympics