1924 Summer Olympics / Boxing

Boxing at the VIII Olympic Games
information
venue	Paris
Competition venue	Velodrome d'Hiver
Nations	27
Athletes	181 (181 men)
date	15-20 July 1924
decisions	8th
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At the VIII Summer Olympics in Paris in 1924 , eight boxing competitions were held. The venue was the Vélodrome d'Hiver in the 15th arrondissement .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	United States	2	2	2	6th
2	Great Britain	2	2	-	4th
3	Denmark	1	2	-	3
4th	Belgium	1	-	1	2
	Norway	1	-	1	2
6th	South African Union	1	-	-	1
7th	Argentina	-	2	2	4th
8th	France	-	-	1	1
	Canada	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Flyweight	Fidel LaBarba	James McKenzie	Raymond Fee
Bantamweight	William Smith	Salvatore Tripoli	Jean Ces
Featherweight	Jackie Fields	Joseph Salas	Pedro Quartucci
lightweight	Hans Jacob Nielsen	Alfredo Copello	Frederick Boylstein
Welterweight	Jean Delarge	Héctor Méndez	Douglas Lewis
medium weight	Harry Mallin	John Elliott	Joseph Beecken
Light heavyweight	Harry Mitchell	Thyge Petersen	Sverre Sørsdal
Heavyweight	Otto von Porat	Søren Petersen	Alfredo Porzio

Results

Fly weight (up to 50.80 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Fidel LaBarba
2	GBR	James McKenzie
3	United States	Raymond Fee
4th	ITA	Rinaldo Castellenghi
5	SWE	Oscar Bergström
	ESP	Ruperto Biete
	CAN	Jock MacGregor
	CAN	Samuel Rennie
9	SUI	R. Nyffeler

Date: 15. – 20. July 1924
19 participants from 13 countries

Bantam weight (up to 53.52 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	RSA	William Smith
2	United States	Salvatore Tripoli
3	FRA	Jean Ces
4th	SWE	Oscar Andrén
5	GBR	Alf Barber
	FRA	Jacques Lemouton
	ARG	Benito Pertuzzo
	ESP	Antonio Sánchez
9	SUI	Johann Weidel
17th	AUT	Franz Barta

Date: 15. – 20. July 1924
21 participants from 15 countries

Feather weight (up to 57.15 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Jackie Fields
2	United States	Joseph Salas
3	ARG	Pedro Quartucci
4th	BEL	Jean Devergnies
5	CHI	Carlos Abarca
	FRA	Marcel Depont
	GBR	Harry Dingley
	ITA	Bruno Petrarch
9	SUI	Jacques Sauthier
17th	LUX	Jean Flammang

Date: 15. – 20. July 1924
24 participants from 17 countries

Lightweight (up to 61.24 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	THE	Hans Jacob Nielsen
2	ARG	Alfredo Copello
3	United States	Frederick Boylstein
4th	FRA	Jean Tholey
5	RSA	Richard Beland
	NOR	Haakon Hansen
	United States	Benjamin Rothwell
	BEL	Alfred Genon
17th	AUT	Anton Eichholzer
	LUX	Grégoire Laurent

Date: 15. – 20. July 1924
30 participants from 22 countries

Welter weight (up to 66.68 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	BEL	Jean Delarge
2	ARG	Héctor Méndez
3	CAN	Douglas Lewis
4th	IRL	Patrick Dwyer
5	United States	Hugh Haggerty
	RSA	Roy Ingram
	United States	Alfons Mello
	SUI	Théodore Stauffer
17th	AUT	Alexander Decker
	SUI	Louis Sauthier

Date: 15. – 20. July 1924
29 participants from 19 countries

Middle weight (up to 72.57 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	GBR	Harry Mallin
2	GBR	John Elliott
3	BEL	Joseph Beecken
4th	CAN	Leslie Black
5	FRA	Roger Brousse
	FRA	Daniel Daney
	CAN	Harry Henning
	IRL	Boy Murphy
9	SUI	Georges Givel
	SUI	Erich Siebert
17th	LUX	Pierre Feidt
	LUX	Jules Steichen

Date: 15. – 20. July 1924
23 participants from 15 countries

Light heavyweight (up to 79.38 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	GBR	Harry Mitchell
2	THE	Thyge Petersen
3	NOR	Sverre Sørsdal
4th	ITA	Carlo Saraudi
5	GBR	John Courtis
	United States	Thomas Kirby
	United States	George Mulholland
	FRA	Georges Rossignon
9	LUX	Michel Maurer
	LUX	Jean Welter

Date: 16. – 20. July 1924
20 participants from 14 countries

Heavyweight (over 79.38 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	NOR	Otto von Porat
2	THE	Søren Petersen
3	ARG	Alfredo Porzio
4th	NED	Henk de Best
5	ITA	Riccardo Bertazzolo
	GBR	Arthur Clifton
	United States	Elery Greathouse
	THE	Robert Larsen

Date: 16. – 20. July 1924
15 participants from 11 countries

Web links

• Boxing at the 1924 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1924 Summer Olympics (PDF, 23.3 MB)