The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Boxing - Light-Heavyweight

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

UNITED STATES - 9 Medals

POLAND - 8 Medals

  GREAT BRITAIN - 6 Medals

Medal Table
Light-Heavyweight Light-Flyweight Flyweight
Featherweight
Lightweight
Light-Welterweight
Welterweight
Light-Middleweight
Middleweight
Bantamweight Heavyweight Super-Heavyweight

Medal Total
Through 2020 Tokyo Games

YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1920
Eddie Eagan - United States
Sverre Sorsdal - Norway
Harold Franks - Great Britain
1924
Harry Mitchell - Great Britain
Thyge Petersen - Denmark
Sverre Sorsdal - Norway
1928
Victor Avendano - Argentina
Ernst Pistulla - Germany
Karel Miljon - Netherlands
1932
David Carstens - South Africa
Gino Rossi - Italy
Peter Jorgensen - Denmark
1936
Roger Michelot - France
Richard Vogt - Germany
Francisco Risiglione - Agentina
1948
George Hunter - South Africa
Don Scott - Great Britain
Mauro Cia - Argentina
1952
Norvel Lee - United States
Antonio Pacenza - Argentina
Anatoly Perov - Soviet Union
Harry Siljander - Finland
1956
James Boyd - United States
Gheorghe Negrea - Romania
Carlos Lucas - Chile
Romualdas Murauskas - Soviet Union
1960
Muhammad Ali - United States
Zbigniew Pietrzykowski - Poland
Anthony Madigan - Australia
Giulio Saraudi - Italy
1964
Cosimo Pinto - Italy
Aleksei Kiselyov - Soviet Union
Alexander Nikolov - Bulgaria
Zbigniew Pietrzykowski - Poland
1968
Daniel Poznyak - Soviet Union
Ion Munea - Romania
Georgi Stankov - Bulgaria
Stanislaw Dragen - Poland
1972
Mate Parlov - Yugoslavia
Gilberto Carrillo - Cuba
Isaac Ikhouria - Nigeria
Janusz Gortat - Poland
1976
Leon Spinks - United States
Sixto Soria - Cuba
Costica Dafinoiu - Romania
Janusz Gortat - Poland
1980
Slobodan Kacar - Yugoslavia
Pawel Skrzecz - Poland
Herbert Bach - East Germany
Ricardo Rojas - Cuba
1984
Anton Josipovic - Yugoslavia
Kevin Barry - New Zealand
Evander Holyfield - United States
Mustapha Moussa - Algeria
1988
Andrew Maynard - United States
Nurmagomed Shanavazov - Soviet Union
Damir Skaro - Yugoslavia
Henryk Petrich - Poland
1992
Torsten May - Germany
Rostislav Zaulichniy - Unified Team
Wojciech Bartnik - Poland
Zoltan Beres - Hungary
1996
Vasilii Jirov - Kazakhstan
Lee Seung-Bae - South Korea
Antonio Tarver - United States
Thomas Ulrich - Germany
2000
Aleksandr Lebziak - Russia
Rudolf Kraj - Czech Republic
Andriy Fedchuk - Ukraine
Sergey Mihaylov - Uzbekistan
2004
Andre Ward - United States
Magomed Aripgadjiev - Belarus
Ahmed Ismail - Egypt
Utkirbek Haydarov - Uzbekistan
2008
Zhang Xiaoping - China
Kenneth Egan - Ireland
Tony Jeffries - Great Britain
Yerkebuian Shynaliyev - Kazakhstan
2012
Egor Mekhontsev - Russia
Adilbek Niyazymbetov - Kazakhstan
Yamaguchi Falcao - Brazil
Oleksandr Hvozdyk - Ukraine
2016
Julio César La Cruz - Cuba
Adilbek Niyazymbetov - Kazakhstan
Mathieu Bauderlique - France
Joshua Buatsi - Great Britain
2020
Arlen López - Cuba Benjamin Whittaker - Great Britain Imam Khataev - Russian Olympic Committee
Loren Alfonso - Azerbaijan

Medal Total  
RANK
COUNTRY
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
TOTAL
1
United States
7
0
2
9
2
Poland
0
2
6
8
3
Great Britain 1
2
3
6
4
Cuba 2
2
1
5
5
Soviet Union
1
2
2
5
6
Yugoslavia
3
0
1
4
7
Germany
1
2
1
4
8
Kazakhstan
1
2
1
4
9
Argentina
1
1
2
4
10
Italy
1
1
1
3
11
Romania
0
2
1
3
12
South Africa
2
0
0
2
13
Russia
2
0
0
2
14
France
1
0
1
2
15
Norway
0
1
1
2
16
Denmark
0
1
1
2
17
Bulgaria
0
0
2
2
18
Ukraine
0
0
2
2
19
Uzbekistan
0
0
2
2
20
China
1
0
0
1
21
New Zealand
0
1
0
1
22
South Korea
0
1
0
1
23
Czech Republic
0
1
0
1
24
Belarus
0
1
0
1
25
Ireland
0
1
0
1
26
Unified Team
0
1
0
1
27
Netherlands
0
0
1
1
28
Finland
0
0
1
1
29
Chile
0
0
1
1
30
Australia
0
0
1
1
31
Nigeria
0
0
1
1
32
Algeria
0
0
1
1
33
Hungary
0
0
1
1
34
Egypt
0
0
1
1
35
Brazil
0
0
1
1
36
Azerbaijan
0
0
1
1
37
East Germany
0
0
1
1
38
Russian Olympic Committee 0
0
1
1