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{{Boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics}} |
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{{Boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics}} |
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'''] at the ]''' took place in the ] in ], California, United States. The boxing schedule began on July 29 and ended on August 11. Twelve boxing events were contested with the participation of 354 fighters from 81 countries.<ref name="SR">{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1984/BOX/ |title=Boxing at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games |work=Sports Reference |accessdate=28 December 2018}}</ref> An upset, that bittered the event, was the absence of the ], ]n, ], and ] in particular, due to the ongoing boycott, that their governments due to political reasons imposed on the Olympics. |
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'''] at the ]''' took place in the ] in ], California, United States. The boxing schedule began on July 29 and ended on August 11. Twelve boxing events were contested with the participation of 354 fighters from 81 countries.<ref name="SR">{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1984/BOX/ |title=Boxing at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games |work=Sports Reference |accessdate=28 December 2018}}</ref><ref>https://www.teamusa.org/News/2014/August/11/Paul-Gonzales-Traveled-Long-Four-Miles-To-Olympic-Gold</ref> |
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The 1984 boxing events were held at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, a multi-purpose sports facility that had been built in 1959. It has been home to numerous professional teams in Los Angeles, and had a seating capacity of about 16,000 for 1984 boxing. The boxing tournament increased to 12 classes in 1984, adding a heavyweight class with an upper weight limit of 91 kg (200½ lbs), similar to the professional cruiserweight class, while the heaviest class was now termed the super-heavyweights.<ref>https://theshadowleague.com/tsl-olympic-blitz-1984-boxing-dream-team/</ref><ref>https://bleacherreport.com/articles/221389-25-years-later-evander-holyfield-robbed-of-gold-in-the-1984-olympics</ref><ref>https://www.pinterest.com/pin/482870391284035185/</ref> |
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==Non-participating teams== |
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Had Cuba, Soviet Union, East Germany, Bulgaria, and Hungary participated in the Olympics, their teams would have encompassed the following athletes: |
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!Weight class||{{flag|Cuba}}||{{flag|Soviet Union}}||{{flag|East Germany}}||{{flagicon|People's Republic of Bulgaria}} ]||{{flagicon|Hungarian People's Republic}} ] |
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!48 kg |
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|Juan Torres Odelin||Karimzhan Abdrakhmanov||]||]||] |
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!51 kg |
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|]||Yuri Vilishchuk||Mike Knuth||Ivan Filchev||] |
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!54 kg |
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!57 kg |
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|]||Serik Nurkazov||Frank Rauschning||Dimitar Slavchev||] |
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!60 kg |
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|]||Nurlan Abdykalykov||Ingo Benske||]||László Bujdosó |
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|Jose Luis Hernandez||]||]||Rosen Ibishev||Mihály Tánczos |
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|]||Andrey Akulov||]||Mikhail Takov||Sandór Hranek |
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|Bernardo Comas||Asylbek Kilimov||]||Kalin Stoyanov||] |
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|]||Vladimir Shin||Detlef Friese||Nikolay Lapkov||István Csepanyi |
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|Hermenegildo Báez||]||Klaus-Dieter Schmid||]||] |
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|]||Valeriy Abadzhyan||]||]||Ferenc Somodi |
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], who was going to try for his fourth Olympic gold medal before the boycott was oficially announced,<ref name="AP" /> had previously defeated ] twice (one by knockout,) and Hermenegildo Báez had previously defeated ]. Soviet ] defeated both Biggs and Tillman during the USA–USSR duals. During the ], Cuban boxers won 10 medals (6 gold,) and had again been expected to do well.<ref name="AP"> by the Associated Press, ''The New York Times'', May 24, 1984.</ref> The United States team was given a good chance of winning six and possibly as many as nine gold medals in the all twelve weight classes, a windfall resulting from Cuba's withdrawal following the withdrawal of the Soviet Union and its Eastern-bloc allies.<ref>''Alfano, Peter''. , ''The New York Times'', July 29, 1984.</ref> In the words of ], "Despite all the flag-waving euphoria in the United States over all those medals in Los Angeles, the Summer Games were a made-in-Disneyland reproduction of the Games because there were no Soviet runners, no Cuban boxers, no East German swimmers."<ref>, ''The New York Times'', December 5, 1984.</ref> |
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==Medal summary== |
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==Medal summary== |
The 1984 boxing events were held at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, a multi-purpose sports facility that had been built in 1959. It has been home to numerous professional teams in Los Angeles, and had a seating capacity of about 16,000 for 1984 boxing. The boxing tournament increased to 12 classes in 1984, adding a heavyweight class with an upper weight limit of 91 kg (200½ lbs), similar to the professional cruiserweight class, while the heaviest class was now termed the super-heavyweights.
