Boxing
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Dates17 September-2 October 1988
Competitors432 from 106 nations
Korean boxers' uniforms at the games

Boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place in the Jamsil Students' Gymnasium in Seoul between 17 September and 2 October. Twelve men's individual boxing events were contested, attended by 432 athletes and 159 officials from 106 countries.[1] The events were notable for a controversial decision in the light middleweight championship bout between American Roy Jones Jr. and South Korean Park Si-Hun, when Roy Jones was denied gold despite being vastly superior.[2][3][4]

Medalists

Games Gold Silver Bronze
Light flyweight
(– 48 kg)
Ivailo Marinov
 Bulgaria
Michael Carbajal
 United States
Leopoldo Serantes
 Philippines
Róbert Isaszegi
 Hungary
Flyweight
(– 51 kg)
Kim Kwang-sun
 South Korea
Andreas Tews
 East Germany
Mario González
 Mexico
Timofey Skryabin
 Soviet Union
Bantamweight
(– 54 kg)
Kennedy McKinney
 United States
Aleksandar Khristov
 Bulgaria
Jorge Julio Rocha
 Colombia
Phajol Moolsan
 Thailand
Featherweight
(– 57 kg)
Giovanni Parisi
 Italy
Daniel Dumitrescu
 Romania
Lee Jae-hyuk
 South Korea
Abdelhak Achik
 Morocco
Lightweight
(– 60 kg)
Andreas Zülow
 East Germany
George Cramne
 Sweden
Nergüin Enkhbat
 Mongolia
Romallis Ellis
 United States
Light welterweight
(– 63.5 kg)
Vyacheslav Yanovski
 Soviet Union
Grahame Cheney
 Australia
Lars Myrberg
 Sweden
Reiner Gies
 West Germany
Welterweight
(– 67 kg)
Robert Wangila
 Kenya
Laurent Boudouani
 France
Jan Dydak
 Poland
Kenneth Gould
 United States
Light middleweight
(– 71 kg)
Park Si-hun
 South Korea
Roy Jones Jr.
 United States
Raymond Downey
 Canada
Richard Woodhall
 Great Britain
Middleweight
(– 75 kg)
Henry Maske
 East Germany
Egerton Marcus
 Canada
Chris Sande
 Kenya
Hussain Shah
 Pakistan
Light heavyweight
(– 81 kg)
Andrew Maynard
 United States
Nurmagomed Shanavazov
 Soviet Union
Damir Škaro
 Yugoslavia
Henryk Petrich
 Poland
Heavyweight
(– 91 kg)
Ray Mercer
 United States
Baik Hyun-man
 South Korea
Andrzej Golota
 Poland
Arnold Vanderlyde
 Netherlands
Super heavyweight
(+ 91 kg)
Lennox Lewis
 Canada
Riddick Bowe
 United States
Aleksandr Miroshnichenko
 Soviet Union
Janusz Zarenkiewicz
 Poland

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)3328
2 South Korea (KOR)2114
3 East Germany (GDR)2103
4 Soviet Union (URS)1124
5 Canada (CAN)1113
6 Bulgaria (BUL)1102
7 Kenya (KEN)1012
8 Italy (ITA)1001
9 Sweden (SWE)0112
10 Australia (AUS)0101
 France (FRA)0101
 Romania (ROU)0101
13 Poland (POL)0044
14 Colombia (COL)0011
 Great Britain (GBR)0011
 Hungary (HUN)0011
 Mexico (MEX)0011
 Mongolia (MGL)0011
 Morocco (MAR)0011
 Netherlands (NED)0011
 Pakistan (PAK)0011
 Philippines (PHI)0011
 Thailand (THA)0011
 West Germany (FRG)0011
 Yugoslavia (YUG)0011
Totals (25 entries)12122448

References

  1. "Boxing at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  2. Mamet, David (7 October 1988). "In Losing, a Boxer Won". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 April 2010.
  3. "Sports of The Times – Nice Gesture Substitutes For Justice – NYTimes.com". Query.nytimes.com. 26 September 1997. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  4. "Seoul Games scarred by riots". in.rediff.com. Retrieved 22 August 2008.
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