1948 Summer Olympics / Boxing
Boxing at the XIV Summer Olympics |
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venue | London |
Competition venue | Wembley Empire Pool |
Nations | 39 |
Athletes | 205 (205 men) |
date | 7-13 August 1948 |
decisions | 8th |
← Berlin 1936 |
At the XIV Summer Olympics in London in 1948 , eight boxing competitions were held. The venue was the Wembley Empire Pool (today's Wembley Arena ) in the Wembley district .
Balance sheet
Medal table
space | country | total | |||
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1 | South African Union | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4th |
2 | Argentina | 2 | - | 1 | 3 |
3 | Hungary | 2 | - | - | 2 |
4th | Italy | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
5 | Czechoslovakia | 1 | - | - | 1 |
6th | Great Britain | - | 2 | - | 2 |
7th | Belgium | - | 1 | - | 1 |
Sweden | - | 1 | - | 1 | |
United States | - | 1 | - | 1 | |
10 | Denmark | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Poland | - | - | 1 | 1 | |
Puerto Rico | - | - | 1 | 1 | |
South Korea | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Medalist
competitor | gold | silver | bronze |
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Flyweight | Pascual Pérez | Spartaco Bandinelli | Han Soo-an |
Bantamweight | Tibor Csík | Giovanni Zuddas | Juan Venegas |
Featherweight | Ernesto Formenti | Dennis Shepherd | Aleksy Antkiewicz |
lightweight | Gerald Dreyer | Joseph Vissers | Svend Wad |
Welterweight | Július Torma | Horace Herring | Alessandro D'Ottavio |
medium weight | László cardboard | John Wright | Ivano Fontana |
Light heavyweight | George Hunter | Don Scott | Mauro Cia |
Heavyweight | Rafael Iglesias | Gunnar Nilsson | John Arthur |
Results
Fly weight (up to 50.8 kg)
space | country | athlete |
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1 | ARG | Pascual Pérez |
2 | ITA | Spartaco Bandinelli |
3 | COR | Han Soo-an |
4th | TCH | František Majdloch |
5 | BEL | Alex Bollaert |
NED | Appie Corman | |
ESP | Luis Martínez | |
United States | Frankie Sodano | |
17th | AUT | Robert Gausterer |
Date: 7th to 13th August 1948
26 participants from 26 countries
Bantam weight (up to 53.5 kg)
space | country | athlete |
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1 | HUN | Tibor Csík |
2 | ITA | Giovanni Zuddas |
3 | PURE | Juan Venegas |
4th | ESP | Álvaro Vicente |
5 | OUT | Jimmy Carruthers |
CHI | Celestino González | |
IRL | William Lenihan | |
CEY | Albert Perera | |
17th | LUX | Roger Behm |
AUT | Hermann Mazurkiewitsch |
Date: 7th to 13th August 1948
30 participants from 30 countries
Feather weight (up to 57.2 kg)
space | country | athlete |
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1 | ITA | Ernesto Formenti |
2 | RSA | Dennis Shepherd |
3 | POLE | Aleksy Antkiewicz |
4th | ARG | Francisco Nuñez |
5 | United States | Eddie Johnson |
AUT | Eduard Kerschbaumer | |
CAN | Armand Savoie | |
COR | Seo Byeong-Ran |
Date: 7th to 13th August 1948
30 participants from 30 countries
Lightweight (up to 61.2 kg)
space | country | athlete |
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1 | RSA | Gerald Dreyer |
2 | BEL | Joseph Vissers |
3 | THE | Svend Wad |
4th | United States | Wallace Smith |
5 | NOR | Øivind Breiby |
CAN | Eddie Haddad | |
IRL | Maxie McCullagh | |
BRA | Ralph Zumbano | |
9 | SUI | Ernst Schmidiger |
17th | LUX | Franz Ehringer |
Date: August 9th to 13th, 1948
28 participants from 28 countries
Welter weight (up to 66.7 kg)
space | country | athlete |
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1 | TCH | Július Torma |
2 | United States | Horace Herring |
3 | ITA | Alessandro D'Ottavio |
4th | RSA | Douglas du Preez |
5 | OUT | Billy Boyce |
POLE | Zygmunt Chychła | |
ESP | Aurelio Díaz | |
ARG | Eladio Herrera | |
9 | LUX | Léon scooter |
Date: 7th to 13th August 1948
26 participants from 26 countries
Middle weight (up to 72.6 kg)
space | country | athlete |
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1 | HUN | László cardboard |
2 | GBR | John Wright |
3 | ITA | Ivano Fontana |
4th | IRL | Michael McKeon |
5 | BEL | Auguste Cavignac |
FRA | Aimé-Joseph Escudie | |
URU | Dogomar Martínez | |
NED | Jan Schubart | |
9 | LUX | Jean Welter |
17th | SUI | Hermann Schneider |
Date: 7th to 13th August 1948
25 participants from 25 countries
Light heavyweight (up to 79.4 kg)
space | country | athlete |
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1 | RSA | George Hunter |
2 | GBR | Don Scott |
3 | ARG | Mauro Cia |
4th | OUT | Adrian Holmes |
5 | ITA | Giacomo di Segni |
IRL | Hugh O'Hagan | |
FIN | Harry Siljander | |
POLE | Franciszek Szymura | |
9 | SUI | Hans Schwerzmann |
17th | AUT | Otto Michtits |
Date: August 9th to 13th, 1948
24 participants from 24 countries
Heavyweight (over 79.4 kg)
space | country | athlete |
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1 | ARG | Rafael Iglesias |
2 | SWE | Gunnar Nilsson |
3 | RSA | John Arthur |
4th | SUI | Hans Müller |
5 | ITA | About baccilieri |
CAN | Adam Lazy | |
GBR | Jack Gardner | |
United States | Jay Lambert | |
9 | AUT | Karl Ameisbichler |
Date: August 9th to 13th, 1948
17 participants from 17 countries
Web links
Commons : Boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Official report of the 1948 Summer Games (PDF, 30.9 MB)