1968 Summer Olympics / Boxing

Boxing at the XIX. Summer Olympics
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venue	Mexico city
Competition venue	Arena México
Nations	65
Athletes	307 (307 men)
date	13.-26. October 1968
decisions	11
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At the XIX. At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City , eleven boxing competitions were held. The venue was the Arena México . A weight class was on the program more than four years earlier.

Balance sheet

Arena México

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Soviet Union	3	2	1	6th
2	United States	2	1	4th	7th
3	Mexico	2	-	2	4th
4th	Poland	1	2	2	5
5	GDR	1	-	-	1
	Great Britain	1	-	-	1
	Venezuela	1	-	-	1
8th	Cuba	-	2	-	2
9	Romania	-	1	1	2
	South Korea	-	1	1	2
	Uganda	-	1	1	2
12	Cameroon	-	1	-	1
13	Bulgaria	-	-	2	2
14th	Argentina	-	-	1	1
	Brazil	-	-	1	1
	BR Germany	-	-	1	1
	Finland	-	-	1	1
	Italy	-	-	1	1
	Japan	-	-	1	1
	Kenya	-	-	1	1
	Yugoslavia	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Light flyweight	Francisco Rodríguez	Jee Yong-ju	Harlan Marbley Hubert Skrzypczak
Flyweight	Ricardo Delgado	Artur Olech	Servilio de Oliveira Leo Rwabwogo
Bantamweight	Valerian Sokolov	Eridadi Mukwanga	Chang Kyou-chul Eiji Morioka
Featherweight	Antonio Roldan	Albert Robinson	Ivan Mikhailov Philip Waruinge
lightweight	Ronald Harris	Józef Grudzień	Calistrat Cuțov Zvonimir Vujin
Light welterweight	Jerzy Kulej	Enrique Regüeiferos	Arto Nilsson James Wallington
Welterweight	Manfred Cloud	Joseph Bessala	Mario Guilloti Volodymyr Mussalimov
Light middleweight	Boris Lagutin	Rolando Garbey	Johnny Baldwin Günther Meier
medium weight	Christopher Finnegan	Alexei Kisselev	Alfred Jones Agustín Zaragoza
Light heavyweight	Danas Pozniakas	Ion Monea	Stanisław Dragan Georgi Stankow
Heavyweight	George Foreman	Jonas Čepulis	Giorgio Bambini Joaquín Rocha

Results

Half fly weight (up to 48 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	VEN	Francisco Rodríguez
2	COR	Jee Yong-ju
3	United States	Harlan Marbley
	POLE	Hubert Skrzypczak
5	OUT	Joseph Donovan
	MEX	Alberto Morales
	CEY	Hatha Karunaratne
	NGR	Gabriel Ogun
9	GDR	Bernd Englmeier

Date: October 13th to 26th, 1968
23 participants from 23 countries

Flyweight (up to 51 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	MEX	Ricardo Delgado
2	POLE	Artur Olech
3	BRA	Servilio de Oliveira
	UGA	Leo Rwabwogo
5	HUN	Tibor Badari
	GHA	Joe Destimo
	JPN	Tetsuaki Nakamura
	URS	Nikolai Novikov

Date: October 14th to 26th, 1968
25 participants from 25 countries

Bantam weight (up to 54 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	URS	Valerian Sokolov
2	UGA	Eridadi Mukwanga
3	COR	Chang Kyou-chul
	JPN	Eiji Morioka
5	MEX	Roberto Cervantes
	IRL	Michael Dowling
	KEN	Samuel Mbugua
	FRG	Horst Rascher
17th	GDR	Bernd Juterzenka

Date: October 13th to 26th, 1968
39 participants from 39 countries

Feather weight (up to 57 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	MEX	Antonio Roldan
2	United States	Albert Robinson
3	BUL	Ivan Mikhailov
	KEN	Philip Waruinge
5	ARG	Miguel García
	EGY	Abdel Hadj Khallaf Allah
	URS	Valery Plotnikov
	DOOR	Seyfi Tatar
17th	FRG	Werner Ruzicka

Date: October 15-26, 1968
32 participants from 32 countries

Lightweight (up to 60 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Ronald Harris
2	POLE	Józef Grudzień
3	ROME	Calistrat Cuțov
	YUG	Zvonimir Vujin
5	BY	Luis Minami
	UGA	Mohamed Muruli
	ITA	Enzo Petriglia
	BUL	Stoyan Pilichev
17th	GDR	Peter Rieger

Date: October 13-26, 1968
37 participants from 37 countries

Half welter weight (up to 63.5 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	POLE	Jerzy Kulej
2	CUB	Enrique Regüeiferos
3	FIN	Arto Nilsson
	United States	James Wallington
5	URS	Yevgeny Frolov
	COR	Kim Sa-yong
	BUL	Petar Stoichev
	GDR	Peter Tiepold
9	FRG	Gert Puzicha

Date: October 13th to 26th, 1968
35 participants from 35 countries

Welter weight (up to 67 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	GDR	Manfred Cloud
2	CMR	Joseph Bessala
3	ARG	Mario Guilloti
	URS	Volodymyr Mussalimov
5	BUL	Ivan Kirjakov
	United States	Armando Muniz
	MEX	Alfonso Ramírez
	ROME	Victor Zilberman
9	SUI	Max Hebeisen
17th	FRG	Dieter Kottysch

Date: October 13th to 26th, 1968
33 participants from 33 countries

Medium weight (up to 71 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	URS	Boris Lagutin
2	CUB	Rolando Garbey
3	United States	Johnny Baldwin
	FRG	Günther Meier
5	URU	Mario Benítez
	GBR	Eric Blake
	ROME	Ion Covaci
	UGA	David Jackson
9	GDR	Detlef Dahn
17th	AUT	Rainer Salzburger

Date: October 14th to 26th, 1968
27 participants from 27 countries

Middle weight (up to 75 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	GBR	Christopher Finnegan
2	URS	Alexei Kiselev
3	United States	Alfred Jones
	MEX	Agustín Zaragoza
5	BUL	Simeon Georgiev
	TCH	Jan Hejduk
	YUG	Mate Parlov
	POLE	Wiesław Rudkowski
9	FRG	Ewald Wichert

Date: October 15-26, 1968
22 participants from 22 countries

Light heavyweight (up to 81 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	URS	Danas Pozniakas
2	ROME	Ion Monea
3	POLE	Stanislaw Dragan
	BUL	Georgi Stankow
5	NGR	Fatai Ayinla
	ITA	Walter Facchinetti
	FRA	Bernard Malherbe
	GDR	Jürgen Schlegel
9	AUT	Kurt Baumgartner
	FRG	Raymar Reimers

Date: October 13th to 26th, 1968
18 participants from 18 countries

Heavy weight (over 81 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	United States	George Foreman
2	URS	Jonas Čepulis
3	ITA	Giorgio Bambini
	MEX	Joaquín Rocha
5	ROME	Ion Alexe
	GDR	Bernd Anders
	NED	Rudie Lubbers
	BUL	Kiril Pandov
9	FRG	Dieter Renz

Date: October 16-26, 1968
16 participants from 16 countries

Web links

• Boxing at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 1968 Summer Games (PDF, 24.4 MB)