See results Go. The 800- and 1,500-metre runs boasted the worlds two best performers, Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe, both of Great Britain. Diving - men's synchronised 10 metre platform. (1st)+178: Johnny Tate, Knoxville, Tenn. (3rd), 106: Robert Shannon, Edmonds, Wash.112: Richard Sandoval, Pomona, Calif.119: Jackie Beard, Jackson, Tenn.125: Bernard Taylor, Charlotte, N.C.132: Joe Manley, Army139: Johnny Bumphus, Nashville, Tenn.147: Donald Curry, Fort Worth, Texas156: James Shuler, Philadelphia, Pa.165: Charles Carter, Yakima, Wash.178: Leroy Murphy, Chicago, Ill.+178: James Broad, Army, 106: Paul Gonzales, Los Angeles, Calif. (1st)112: Steve McCrory, Detroit, Mich. (1st)119: Robert Shannon, Edmonds, Wash.125: Meldrick Taylor, Philadelphia, Pa. (1st)132: Pernell Whitaker, Norfolk, Va. (1st)139: Jerry Page, Columbus, Ohio (1st)147: Mark Breland, Brooklyn, N.Y. (1st)156: Frank Tate, Detroit, Mich. (1st)165: Virgil Hill, Williston, N.D. (2nd)178:Evander Holyfield, Atlanta, Ga. (3rd)201: Henry Tillman, Los Angeles, Calif. (1st)+201: Tyrell Biggs, Philadelphia, Pa. (1st), 106: Michael Carbajal, Phoenix, Ariz. (2nd)112: Arthur Johnson, Minneapolis, Minn.119: Kennedy McKinney, Killeen, Texas (1st)125: Kelcie Banks, Chicago, Ill.132: Romallis Ellis, Ellenwood, Ga. (3rd)139: Todd Foster, Great Falls, Mt.147: Kenneth Gould, Rockford, Ill. (3rd)156:Roy Jones, Pensacola, Fla. (2nd)165: Anthony Hembrick, Army/Ft. Dean set a British record of one minute 44.22 seconds to finish 0.04secs ahead of team-mate Duncan Scott. As in 1980, the boycott resulted in empty lanes and canceled heats on the track and an unbalanced distribution of medals. GB have now won six successive Olympic titles in sailing's Finn class and Scott now effectively be forever the reigning Olympic Finn champion with the class being somewhat dropped for Paris 2024 and beyond. The competition was held from 28 August to 10 September 1972. At the 1984 Games the U.S. team benefited most, capturing 83 gold medals and 174 medals altogether. And so Stevenson won his first Olympic gold without lifting a glove. However, Taylor came back to beat Minsker twice back-to-back to earn the spot in the Olympic box-offs. The weight class allowed boxers of up to 63.5 kilograms to compete. The men's middleweight event was part of the boxing programme at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Welterweight was considered one of the most competitive weight divisions contested in 1972. Daley, who made his Olympic debut at the age of 13, won gold in his fourth Games alongside debutant Lee. They were intended to be a celebration of peace, putting the militaristic images of Berlin 1936 far behind. He suffered serious damage to his retina during his career and was declared legally blind in the mid-eighties. The Incredible 1976 U.S Olympic Boxing Team - YouTube Hungary. McEwen was third after the eventing stage and then rode Toledo de Kerser into the silver medal position. The competition was held from 27 August to 10 September 1972. 2012. The Great Britain trio scored 7,723.0, finishing behind the United States and Germany as Dujardin drew level with rower Dame Katherine Grainger and tennis player Kathleen McKane Godfree on five Olympic medals. Bragg, N.C. (3rd)145: Armando Muniz, Army156: John Baldwin, Detroit, Mich./Air Force (3rd)165: Alfred Jones, Detroit, Mich. (3rd)178: Arthur Redden, Wilmington, Del./Marines+178:George Foreman, Marshall, Texas (1st), 106: Davey Lee Armstrong, Puyallup, Wash112: Tim Dement, Shreveport, La.119: Ricardo Carreras, N.Y./Air Force (3rd)125: Louis Self, Toledo, Ohio132: Louis Busceme, Beaumont, Texas139: Ray Seales, Tacoma, Wash. (1st)147: Jesse Valdez, Houston, Texas/Air Force (3rd)156: Reginald Jones, Newark, N.J./Marines165: Marvin Johnson, Indianapolis, Ind. Scott became a double gold medallist after retaining his men's Finn title after finishing fourth in the final race to take GB's gold medal tally to 13. How she did it: Franklin won silver in the first-ever Olympic women's canoe slalom C1 event after finishing second behind Australia's Jessica Fox. The men's bantamweight event was part of the boxing programme at the 1972 Summer Olympics. The 21-year-old from Leeds broke a collarbone in training two months ago, but recovered to secure Great Britain's first mountain biking gold. The Soviet men, led by Vladimir Salnikov, won seven events. London 1908 Harry Johnson (Lightweight, 63.5kg) The competition was held from 27 August to 10 September 1972. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boxing_at_the_1972_Summer_Olympics&oldid=1127997748, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 17 December 2022, at 21:00. The U.S. team, believing that the final result was unfair, did not attend the victory ceremony, refused their silver medals, and filed an official protest to no avail. Peaty became the first British swimmer to defend an Olympic title, finishing in a time of 57.37 seconds, 0.06secs clear of nearest rival Arno Kamminga of the Netherlands. This list may not reflect recent changes. 1940. The track-and-field competition returned to the Memorial Coliseum, which had been renovated for the Games. Coward-Holley finished third and only missed out by a shot on a gold medal play-off. He fought some of the best boxers in the middleweight division including world champions Marvin Hagler and [Alan Minter] but, although he held the North American championships, never managed to get a shot at the world title. The weight class allowed boxers of up to 54 kilograms to compete. Rodrguez was the first of the three to be eliminated although it came in bizarre circumstances. The GB team overcame a scratchy first baton exchange between Philip and Lansiquot to finish third, 0.2 seconds clear of Switzerland. How he did it: In a tight finish, Choong battled back past Egypt's Ahmed Elgendy in the final event, taking the lead with 800m to go to secure a double for Team GB following Kate French's win in the women's event. The competition was held from 27 August to 10 September with the participation of 354 fighters from 80 countries. Canadian Ben Johnson, champion of the 100-metre run, and several weightlifters tested positive for steroid use and were disqualified. Paris 2024; Beijing 2022 . Kostadinov fought on after Munich and returned to the Olympic Games in 1976 in Montreal but his display in 1972 was far and away the best of his career. The weight class allowed boxers of up to 51 kilograms to compete. Bridget Parker Equestrian Eventing Mary Peters Athletics David Starbrook Judo Patrick Sweeney Rowing 15 more 01 Brendan Foster leads the field in the 1500 metres at the Munich 1972 Olympics. . The men's heavyweight event was part of the boxing programme at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Jim Fox dead at 81: Tributes paid to British modern pentathlon Olympic He lost the title to fellow Olympian [Marvin Johnson], then retired in 1980 following two failures to win another world title in the cruiserweight division. How they did it: The trio scooped GB's first eventing team gold since Munich 1972 with a score of 86.30. How she did it: Price became the first Welsh fighter to win an Olympic boxing gold medal as she defeated China's Li Qian to take a 5-0 points victory. Greenbank finished behind the Russian Olympic Committee's world champion Evgeny Rylov, who took gold with a new Olympic record, while the USA's Ryan Murphy claimed silver. The swimming competition starred American Mark Spitz, who won seven gold medals (three in relays), the most by any athlete in one Olympics to that time. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Boxers_at_the_1972_Summer_Olympics&oldid=951699170, Template Category TOC via CatAutoTOC on category with 301600 pages, CatAutoTOC generates standard Category TOC, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 18 April 2020, at 12:06. Kenny was the lead-off rider and sensed a hesitation in his opponents behind as the durney left the track, launching a solo sprint to win the gold medal. Kristin Otto of East Germany won six gold medals in swimming. She was unable to progress to the gold-medal match, losing to Japan's Irie Sena. Bradshaw claimed Britain's second track and field medal in Tokyo and finally landed her first major championship podium finish with pole vault bronze. In all, nearly 6,800 athletes representing 140 countries came to Los Angeles. Munich 1972 - Ralph Evans (Light Flyweight, 48kg) Melbourne 1956 - Tommy Nicholls (Featherweight, 57kg) Melbourne 1956 - Nicholas Cargano (Welterweight, 69kg) London 1948 - John Wright (Middleweight, 73kg) London 1948 - Donald Scott, Light Heavyweight, 80kg) Paris 1924 - James MacKenzie (Flyweight, 50.8kg) Boxing | Team GB Great Britain at the 1972 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia Price became the first Welsh fighter to win an Olympic boxing gold medal as she defeated China's Li Qian to take a 5-0 points victory. Fourteen male shooters represented Great Britain in 1972. All three riders qualified for the individual jumping final by posting scores inside the top five overall, with McEwen going on to win silver. Only one of the contests reached the final round and he secured gold with a brutal knockout of [Reima Virtanen]. The British crew held off late charges from Australia and Poland to win Great Britain's first gold in the event. Kottysch avoided the favourites in the early stages and watched as the top rated fighters began to eliminate each other from contention. gyrgy gedo. The weight class allowed boxers of up to 57 kilograms to compete. 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London 1908 John Douglas (Middleweight, 71.7kg) All the hostages, five of their captors, and a West German policeman were slain in a failed rescue attempt. The first of the four to fall was Wolke although his exit at the hands of Correa was due to a cut eye that happened in the second round of an otherwise even contest. More than 6,000 athletes competed, representing 92 countries. The Soviet Union won only two medals, but both of them were gold. Full list of gold, silver and bronze medallists as well as photos and videos of medal-winning moments. 31 boxers from 31 nations competed. Read about our approach to external linking. This was an indoor arena constructed for the 1972 Olympics, which also hosted judo competition. See full results. Talbot's success did not last long and was easily defeated in his next bout by the man who proved to be the class of the field, Hungary's European champion [Gyrgy Ged]. How he did it: Coward-Holley finished third and only missed out by a shot on a gold medal play-off. He won three Olympic and three World amateur titles during his career. How they did it: The 2016 champions beat India in a thrilling bronze-medal match. Facing Parlov in the final was the 19-year-old Cuban soldier [Gilberto Carrillo]. His opponent for the gold medal was [Kim U-Gil], the first boxer from the People's Republic of Korea to win an Olympic medal. With the powerful eastern European teams absent, the U.S. mens and womens gymnastic teams had their best Olympic showing ever; Mary Lou Retton became the first American woman to capture the individual gold medal in the combined exercises. The competition was held from 3 to 10 September 1972. JIM FOX, the former modern pentathlon Olympic champion, has died at the age of 81. It would mark the beginning of a gold-medal-winning run that lasted three Games (Munich 1972, Montreal 1976 and Moscow 1980). The quartet claimed Great Britain's fourth swimming gold at an Olympics - the first time the nation has won that many at a single Games for 113 years - as they finished clear of China in the first-ever mixed medley relay. Sinden lost out to Uzbekistan's Ulugbek Rashitov in a see-saw gold-medal bout. How she did it: Walden lost in the final second of her semi-final but bounced back to beat Poland's Aleksandra Kowalczuk 7-3 in the bronze-medal match. The 1972 Olympic Games were the largest yet, setting records for the number of events, participating NOCs and competing athletes. Nine other Israelis were held hostage as the terrorists bargained for the release of 200 Palestinian prisoners in Israel. Munich 1972 Alan Minter (Light Middleweight, 71kg) Awaiting Zamora was Orlando Martnez, who had reached the final despite not being overly impressive in his preliminary bouts. Team GB's Boxing preview for Tokyo Olympics: Ones to watch and - ESPN Boxing: Light-flyweight M: GBR: Ralph Evans Bantamweight M: GBR: George Turpin . Remembering 1972 U.S. Olympic squad 40 years later, three endings - ESPN Event. The event was overshadowed by the Munich massacre in the second week, in which . eventing team gold since Munich 1972 with a score of 86.30 . The reigning champion from Rio led from the front, competing first and setting a score of 15.583 that ensured he would become the first Olympic pommel champion to defend the title since 1980. to win an Olympic boxing gold medal as she defeated . Britwatch - How are GB athletes doing in Tokyo? Walt Disney Television via Getty Images Source: IOC Women's basketball, handball, and rowing were added in 1976, according to the IOC. Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut and weightlifter Vasily Alekseyev made their Olympic debuts in 1972. The competition was held from 28 August to 10 September 1972. Seales was drawn against the reigning European Champion, [Ulrich Beyer] of East Germany. Tom Dean became the first British male swimmer to win two golds at the same Olympic Games since 1908. Political problems threatened to return to centre stage at the 1988 Games. Empower Team USA athletes to achieve sustained competitive excellence and well-being. USA Boxing Olympic Teams She was unable to progress to the gold-medal match, losing to Japan's Irie Sena. London 2012Luke Campbell(Bantamweight, 56kg, pictured above) He was also on the 1972 Olympic team going 1-1. Detailed below are all Great Britains boxing medalists from the London 1908 to Tokyo 2020. The big surprise of the 1972 boxing tournament, and a very pleasant one for the home crowd, was the victory of West Germany's [Dieter Kottysch] in the light-welterweight. What Do the Olympic Rings and Flame Represent? Wilby swam in the heats in place of the rested Peaty. How she did it: Wilson was guaranteed a medal going into the medal event after winning four of her previous races. Soviet Greco-Roman wrestler Aleksandr Kareline, competing in the super heavyweight division, also won his first gold medal. 1904 St. Louis, Mo. As Kuznetzov made his way through the bottom half of the draw so Waruinge did likewise in the top half of the draw. London 2012 Anthony Joshua (Super Heavyweight, 91kg+), Beijing 2008 James DeGale (Middleweight, 75kg), Sydney 2000 Audley Harrison (Super Heavyweight, 91kg+), Mexico 1968 Christopher Finnegan (Middleweight, 75kg), Melbourne 1956 Richard McTaggart (Lightweight, 60kg) Wilby swam in the heats in place of the rested Peaty. The Soviet Union captured the gold medal in mens basketball, upsetting the United States, which until then had never lost a game in Olympic competition. All three riders qualified for the individual jumping final by posting scores inside the top five overall, with McEwen going on to win silver. Three male pentathletes represented Great Britain in 1972. The choice of Lemeshev turned out to be a masterstroke and he proved unbeatable. . How she did it: Shriever was victorious on her Olympic debut after needing crowd funding to be able to go to Japan. he let his fiance visit him at the team's Olympic quarters. The inexperienced Carillo stated well and had the better of the opening exchanges but he failed to recover from a knockdown late in round one and was stopped in the final minute of the second run. Rome 1960 William Fisher (Light Middleweight, 71kg), Melbourne 1956 Nicholas Gargano (Welterweight, 67kg) Unlike other Communist regimes, Yugoslavia allowed its' boxers to fight professionally and so Parlov took up this option in 1975. America's stellar team of boxers savoured gold medal glory at 1976 Munich 1972 Boxing - Olympic Results by Discipline The 36-year-old clocked 35.202 seconds to edge out Hungary's Kolos Csizmadia for third place. Basketball at the 1976 Olympic Games. Tragedy struck the 1972 Olympics in Munich when eight Palestinian terrorists invaded the Olympic Village on September 5 and killed two members of the Israeli team. London 1908 Albert Oldman (Heavyweight, 71.7+kg), Tokyo 2020 (contested in 2021 due to Coronavirus Pandemic) Pat McCormack (Welterweight, 69kg) The biggest shock of the light-flyweight occurred in the first round when reigning Olympic champion [Francisco Rodrguez] was knocked out by unheralded Australian teenager [Dennis Talbot]. Bronze medalist Minter went on to a successful professional career which culminated with a spell as the middleweight champion of the world. She was second in the final behind France's Charlene Picon, who took silver, while a sixth place finished was enough to win China's Lu Yunxiu gold. -year-old American Hyman Miller, who was declared a surprise first-round loser in the flyweight class. In his later life he battled unsuccessfully with alcohol problems and this contributed to his death at the age of just 43. The men's light heavyweight event was part of the boxing programme at the 1972 Summer Olympics. How she did it: Artingstall guaranteed herself a medal with a quarter-final split-decision win against Australia's Skye Nicolson. Bernard O'Neill - IABA Press Officer. How they did it: The Team GB quartet put in a superb run and led going into the final straight, but anchor leg Mitchell-Blake was beaten on the line by Italy's Filippo Tortu. Several of the participating countries refused to attend the opening ceremony, and the Olympic hymn was played at several medal ceremonies, rather than the appropriate national anthem. Worthington recovered from a fall on her first run to win a thrilling gold in the women's BMX park freestyle Olympic final, delivering an action-packed score of 97.50 to snatch gold on her second run. Team Leader: Wendell Allen, Las Vegas, Nev. The competition was held from 27 August to 10 September 1972. Official Boxing results from the Mexico City 1968 Olympics. 284 competitors, 210 men and 74 women, took part in 159 events in 18 sports. America's squad was made up of Louis Curtis, Leo Randolph, Charles Mooney, Davey Lee. Britain have won 59 medals - 19 gold, 20 silver, 20 bronze - compared with 65 at London . How they did it: At 13 years and 23 days, Brown claimed bronze and made history as Great Britain's youngest-ever summer Olympic medal winner. How they did it: McCormack won a silver medal after losing a hard-fought men's welterweight contest to Cuba's Roniel Iglesias on points. See 40 Years of Olympic Boxing Team Heavyweights and Champions. The weight class allowed boxers of up to 75 kilograms to compete. How he did it: Scott won his third Tokyo medal after finishing behind China's gold medal winner Wang Shun. How she did it: French entered the final event of the modern pentathlon in fifth, but stormed away from the field with a dominant run to win gold. But in a turn of events, his Romanian opponent had to forfeit. Great Britain finished 14 seconds ahead of the United States in the inaugural mixed relay. London 1908 Frederick Grace (Lightweight, 63.5kg) Parlov was dominant in Munich and comfortably defeated opponents from Chad, Hungary and Poland on his way to fight for the gold medal. Lying fourth after the snatch, Campbell lifted 161kg in the clean and jerk to secure a spot on the podium and become Britain's first ever female Olympic weightlifting medallist. As well as the 1968 champion [Manfred Wolke] of the GDR, the veteran Hungarian [Jnos Kajdi], [Jesse Valdez] of the USA and the teenaged Pan American Games champion from Cuba, [Emilio Correa], were all touted as possible Olympic champions. The weight class allowed boxers of up to 60 kilograms to compete. How he did it: Scott won his third medal of the Tokyo Olympics and Great Britain's sixth in the pool with silver after finishing behind winner Wang Shun of China. Olympic Gold Medal Boxing Champions - All Weights All competition was suspended for a day while a memorial service for the victims was conducted at the Olympic Stadium. Remembering the Famous 1976 USA Olympic Boxing Team! When Juocevicius' Olympic dreams were thwarted by injury it was thought that Riskiyev would be chosen but instead the Soviet selectors chose Lemeshev. The Wiltshire-star famously exposed the cheating of Soviet Union Red Army soldier Boris Onishchenko, who was disqualified after it was . Expand All - 48kg (light-flyweight) men. 32 boxers from 32 nations competed. In his absence [Ricardo Carreras] of the USA, [Orlando Martinez] of Cuba and [Juan Francisco Rodrguez], a Spaniard who had been European flyweight champion, appeared the most likely medal contenders. Full list of gold, silver and bronze medallists as well as photos and videos of medal-winning moments. How he did it: Sinden lost out to Uzbekistan's Ulugbek Rashitov in a see-saw gold-medal bout. British Olympic Foundation; Get Set; Partner Organisations . After losing in the final of the 1969 European Championships, Yugoslavia's [Mate Parlov]won the next four major tournaments he could enter. OLYMPIC STYLE BOXING HISTORY. How they did it: Great Britain's team were seventh after the first two pieces of apparatus, but a score of 14.033 from Amelie Morgan in the team's final floor display ensured a podium finish for a team that featured the 16-year-old Gadirova twins. Until recently boxing was only contested by men in the Olympics, but in 2012 womencompeted for the first time, in three weight categories; 51kg, 60kg and 75kg. 14 boxers from 14 nations competed, 1976 World Championships in Athletics Malmo, Sweden, 1980 World Championships in Athletics Sittard, Netherlands, 1983 World Championships in Athletics Helsinki, Finland, 1987 World Championships in Athletics Rome, Italy, 1991 World Championships in Athletics Tokyo, Japan, 1993 World Championships in Athletics Stuttgart, Germany, 1995 World Championships in Athletics Gothenburg, Sweden, 1997 World Championships in Athletics Athens, Greece, 1999 World Championships in Athletics Sevilla, Spain, 2001 World Championships in Athletics Edmonton, Canada, 2003 World Championships in Athletics Paris, France, 2005 World Championships in Athletics Helsinki, Finland, 2007 World Championships in Athletics Osaka, Japan, 2009 World Championships in Athletics Berlin, Germany, 2011 World Championships in Athletics Daegu, South Korea, 2013 World Championships in Athletics Moscow, Russia, 2015 World Championships in Athletics Beijing, Russia, 2017 World Championships in Athletics London, United Kingdom, 2019 World Championships in Athletics Doha, Qatar, 2022 World Championships in Athletics Eugene, USA, 2. The 21-year-old from Leeds broke a collarbone in training two months ago, but recovered to secure Great Britain's first mountain biking gold. Although he was European junior champion in 1971, the USSR also had Juozas Juocevicius, the European senior champion, and the highly rated Rufat Riskiyev to choose from. Tokyo 2020 (contested in 2021 due to Coronavirus Pandemic) Ben Whittaker (Light-heavyweight, 81kg), Rio 2016 Joseph Joyce (Super Heavyweight, 91kg+, pictured above), London 2012Fred Evans(Welterweight, 69kg), Athens 2004 Amir Khan (Lightweight, 60kg), Munich 1972 Ralph Evans (Light Flyweight, 48kg), Melbourne 1956 Tommy Nicholls (Featherweight, 57kg)