The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Boxing - Light-Welterweight

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

CUBA - 9 Medals

  UNITED STATES- 7 Medals

  SOVIET UNION- 6 Medals

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

Medal Total
Through 2016 Rio Games

YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1952
Charles Adkins - United States
Viktor Mednov - Soviet Union
Bruno Visintin - Italy
Erkki Mallenius - Finland
1956
Vladimir Yengibaryan - Soviet Union
Franco Nenci - Italy
Constantin Dumitrescu - Romania
Henry Loubscher - South Africa
1960
Wilbert McClure - United States
Carmelo Bossi - Italy
William Fisher - Great Britain
Boris Lagutin - Soviet Union
1964
Jerzy Kulej - Poland
Yevgeni Frolov - Soviet Union
Habib Galhia - Tunisia
Eddie Blay - Ghana
1968
Jerzy Kulej - Poland
Enrique Regueiferos - Cuba
Arto Nilsson - Finland
James Wallington - United States
1972
Ray Seales - United States
Angel Angelov - Bulgaria
Issaka Dabore - Niger
Zvonimir Vujin - Yugoslavia
1976
Ray Leaonard - United States
Andres Aldama - Cuba
Vladimir Kolev - Bulgaria
Kazimierz Szczerba - Poland
1980
Patrizio Oliva - Italy
Serik Konakbaev - Soviet Union
Anthony Willis - Great Britain
Jose Aguuilar - Cuba
1984
Jerry Page - United States
Dhawee Umponmaha - Thailand
Mircea Fulger - Romania
Mirko Puzovic - Yugoslavia
1988
Vyacheslav Yanovski - Soviet Union
Grahame Cheney - Australia
Lars Myrberg - Sweden
Reiner Gies - West Germany
1992
Hector Vinent - Cuba
Mark Leduc - Canada
Jyri Kjall - Finland
Leonard Doroftei - Romania
1996
Hector Vinent - Cuba
Oktay Urkal - Germany
Fathi Missaoui - Tunisia
Bolat Niyazymbetov - Kazakhstan
2000
Mahammatkodir Abdullaev - Uzbekistan
Ricardo Williams - United States
Mohamed Allalou - Algeria
Diogenes Luna - Cuba
2004
Manus Boonjumnong - Thailand
Yudel Johnson - Cuba
Boris Georgiev - Bulgaria
Ionut Gheorghe - Romania
2008
Manuel Felix Diaz - Dominican Republic
Manus Boonjumnong - Thailand
Roniel Iglesias - Cuba
Alexis Vastine - France
2012
Roniel Iglesias - Cuba
Denys Berinchyk - Ukraine
Vicenzo Mangiacapre - Italy
Uranchimegiin Monkh-Erdene - Mongolia
2016
Fazliddin Gaibnazarov - Uzbekistan
Lorenzo Sotomayor - Azerbaijan
Vitaly Dunaytsev - Russia
Artem Harutyunyan - Germany

Medal Total  
RANK
COUNTRY
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
TOTAL
1
Cuba
3
3
3
9
2
United States
5
1
1
7
3
Soviet Union
2
3
1
6
4
Italy
1
2
2
5
5
Romania
0
0
4
4
6
Poland
2
0
1
3
7
Thailand
1
2
0
3
8
Bulgaria
0
1
2
3
9
Finland
0
0
3
3
10
Uzbekistan
2
0
0
2
11
Germany
0
1
1
2
12
Great Britain
0
0
2
2
13
Tunisia
0
0
2
2
14
Yugoslavia
0
0
2
2
15
Dominican Republic
1
0
0
1
16
Australia
0
1
0
1
17
Canada
0
1
0
1
18
Ukraine
0
1
0
1
19
Azerbaijan
0
1
0
1
20
South Africa
0
0
1
1
21
Ghana
0
0
1
1
22
Niger
0
0
1
1
23
Sweden
0
0
1
1
24
Mongolia
0
0
1
1
25
Kazakhstan
0
0
1
1
26
Algeria
0
0
1
1
27
France
0
0
1
1
28
Russia
0
0
1
1
29
West Germany
0
0
1
1