World Boxing Championships 1978

The 2nd World Amateur Boxing Championships for men took place in 1978 in Belgrade .

Results

Half fly weight (- 48 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	KEN	Stephen Muchoki
2	CUB	Jorge Hernández
3	VEN	Armando Guevera
3	United States	Richard Sandoval

Fly weight (- 51 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	POLE	Henryk Średnicki
2	CUB	Héctor Ramírez
3	URS	Alexander Mikhailov
3	YES	Ishi Koki

Bantam weight (- 54 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	CUB	Adolfo Horta
2	YUG	Fazlija Šaćirović
3	GDR	Stefan Foerster
3	COR	Chung Kim Chil

Feather weight (- 57 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	CUB	Ángel Herrera
2	YUG	Bratislav Ristić
3	POLE	Roman Gotfryd
3	VEN	Antonio Esperragozza

Light weight (- 60 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	NIG	Andeh Davidson
2	URS	Vladimir Sorokin
3	FRG	René Weller
3	GDR	Lutz cheese beer

Half welter weight (- 63.5 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	URS	Valery Lvov
2	YUG	Mehmet Bogujevci
3	FRA	Jean-Claude Ruiz
3	GDR	Karl-Heinz Kruger

Welter weight (- 67 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	URS	Valery Ratschkov
2	YUG	Miodrag Perunović
3	United States	Roosevelt Green
3	GER	Ernst Müller

Medium weight (- 71 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	URS	Viktor Savchenko
2	CUB	Luis Martínez
3	POLE	Jerzy Rybicki
3	BUL	Ilya Ilyev

Middle weight (- 75 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	CUB	José Gomez
2	FIN	Tarmo Uusivirta
3	YUG	Slobodan Kačar
3	BUL	Ilya Angelov

Light heavyweight (- 81 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	CUB	Sixto Soria
2	YUG	Tadija Kačar
3	URS	Nikolai Erofeev
3	GDR	Herbert belly

Heavy weight (+ 81 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	CUB	Teófilo Stevenson
2	YUG	Dragomir Vujković
3	VEN	Carlos Rivera
3	GDR	Jürgen Fanghänel

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Cuba	5	3	0	8th
2	Soviet Union	3	1	2	6th
3	Poland	1	0	2	3
4th	Kenya	1	0	0	1
	Nigeria	1	0	0	1
6th	Yugoslavia	0	6th	1	7th
7th	Finland	0	1	0	1
8th	German Democratic Republic	0	0	5	5
9	Venezuela	0	0	3	3
10	Federal Republic of Germany	0	0	2	2
	Bulgaria	0	0	2	2
	United States	0	0	2	2
13	South Korea	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
	Total	11	11	22nd	44

See also

• Boxing world championships
• Weight class

Web links

• Results