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| Boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics | |
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| Flyweight | men |
| Bantamweight | men |
| Featherweight | men |
| Lightweight | men |
| Light welterweight | men |
| Welterweight | men |
| Light middleweight | men |
| Middleweight | men |
| Light heavyweight | men |
| Heavyweight | men |
| Super heavyweight | men |
Boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics took place in the Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles, 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. A Soviet led boycott, prevented many of the world's best amateur boxers from competing.
At the 1980 Summer Olympics, that was heavily impacted by a US led boycott, Cuban boxers won 10 medals (6 gold,) and had again been expected to do well. 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. Teófilo Stevenson, who was going to try for his fourth Olympic gold medal before the boycott was officially announced, had previously defeated Tyrell Biggs twice (one by knockout,) and Hermenegildo Báez had previously defeated Henry Tillman. Soviet Alexander Yagubkin defeated both Biggs and Tillman during the USA–USSR duals. In the words of George Vecsey, "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."
Medal summary
See also
References
- "Boxing at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games". Sports Reference. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
- ^ Cuba Withdraws From Olympic by the Associated Press, The New York Times, May 24, 1984.
- Alfano, Peter. Boxing: Americans Rated Above '76 Unit, The New York Times, July 29, 1984.
- New Olympic Sanctions, The New York Times, December 5, 1984.
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| Events at the 1984 Summer Olympics (Los Angeles) | |
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| Val Barker Trophy winners | |
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| Awarded to the outstanding and most stylistic boxer of each Olympic Games | |
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