The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Boxing - Light-Middleweight

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

UNITED STATES - 7 Medals

  SOVIET UNION - 6 Medals

  CUBA - 5 Medals

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

Medal Total
Through 2010 Sydney Games

YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1952
Laszlo Papp - Hungary
Theunis van Schalkwyk - South Africa
Boris Tishin - Soviet Union
Eladio Herrera - Argentina
1956
Laszlo Papp - Hungary
Jose Torres - United States
John McCormack - Great Britain
Zbigniew Pietrzykowski - Poland
1960
Wilbert McClure - United States
Carmelo Bossi - Italy
William Fisher - Great Britain
Boris Lagutin - Soviet Union
1964
Boris Lagutin - Soviet Union
Joseph Gonzales - France
Nojim Maiyegun - Nigeria
Jozef Grzesiak - Poland
1968
Boris Lagutin - Soviet Union
Rolando Garbey - Cuba
John Lee Bladwin - United States
Gunther Meier - West Germany
1972
Dieter Kottysch - West Germany
Wieslaw Rudkowski - Poland
Peter Tiepold - East Germany
Alan Minter - Great Britain
1976
Jerzy Rybicki - Poland
Tadija Kacar - Yugoslavia
Rolando Garbey - Cuba
Viktor Savchenko - Soviet Union
1980
Armando Martinez - Cuba
Aleksandr Koshkyn - Soviet Union
Jan Franek - Czechoslovakia
Detlef Kastner - East Germany
1984
Frank Tate - United States
Shawn O'Sullivan - Canada
Christophe Tiozzo - France
Manfred Zielonka - West Germany
1988
Park Si-Hun - South Korea
Roy Jones, Jr. - United States
Raymond Downey - Canada
Richard Woodhall - Great Britain
1992
Juan Carlos Lemus - Cuba
Orhan Delibas - Netherlands
Gyorgy Mizsei - Hungary
Robin Reid - Great Britain
1996
David Reid - United States
Alfredo Duvergel - Cuba
Yermakhan Ibraimov - Kazakhstan
Karim Tulaganov - Uzbekistan
2000
Yermakhan Ibraimov - Kazakhstan Marian Simion - Romania
Pornchai Thongburan - Thailand
Jermain Taylor - United States

Medal Total  
RANK
COUNTRY
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
TOTAL
1
United States
3
2
2
7
2
Soviet Union
2
1
3
6
3
Cuba
2
2
1
5
4
Great Britain
0
0
5
5
5
Poland
1
1
2
4
6
Hungary
2
0
1
3
7
West Germany
1
0
2
3
8
Kazakhstan
1
0
1
2
9
France
0
1
1
2
10
Canada
0
1
1
2
11
East Germany
0
0
2
2
12
South Korea
1
0
0
1
13
South Africa
0
1
0
1
14
Italy
0
1
0
1
15
Netherlands
0
1
0
1
16
Romania
0
1
0
1
17
Yugoslavia
0
1
0
1
18
Argentina
0
0
1
1
19
Nigeria
0
0
1
1
20
Czechoslovakia
0
0
1
1
21
Uzbekistan
0
0
1
1
22
Thailand
0
0
1
1