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Boxing at the 1932 Summer Olympics

Boxing at the 1932 Summer Olympics

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These are the results of the boxing
Boxing
Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds. There are three ways to win...

competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics
1932 Summer Olympics
The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States. No other cities made a bid to host these Olympics. Held during the worldwide Great Depression, many nations and...

in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
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. Medals were awarded in 8 weight classes
Boxing weight classes
Boxing weight-class names are not always consistent, as shown in the following table:Current weight classes for boxing at the Summer Olympics:...

. The competitions were held from August 9, 1932 to August 13, 1932.
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These are the results of the boxing
Boxing
Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds. There are three ways to win...

competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics
1932 Summer Olympics
The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States. No other cities made a bid to host these Olympics. Held during the worldwide Great Depression, many nations and...

in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the second largest in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California...

. Medals were awarded in 8 weight classes
Boxing weight classes
Boxing weight-class names are not always consistent, as shown in the following table:Current weight classes for boxing at the Summer Olympics:...

. The competitions were held from August 9, 1932 to August 13, 1932.

Medal summary

Flyweight
Flyweight
Flyweight is a class in boxing which includes fighters weighing less than 112 lb but above 108 lb .-Professional boxing:The flyweight division was the last of boxing's eight traditional weight classes to be established. Before 1909, anyone below featherweight was considered a bantamweight,...


(-50.8 kg / 112 lb)
István Énekes
István Énekes
István Énekes was a Hungarian boxer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.In 1932 he won the gold medal in the flyweight class after winning the final against Francisco Cabañas....

Francisco Cabañas
Francisco Cabañas
Francisco Cabañas Prado is a Mexican boxer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.In 1932 he won the silver medal in the flyweight class after winning the final against István Énekes.-References:* *...

Louis Salica
Louis Salica
Louis Salica was an American boxer, who won the Flyweight Bronze medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics.As an amateur Salica was the 1932 National AAU flyweight champion...

Bantamweight
Bantamweight
The term bantamweight usually refers to a class in boxing or boxers who weigh between 112 and 118 pounds . Wrestling also has similar weight classes including bantamweight. The name is derived from Bantam chickens.-History:...


(-53.5 kg / 118 lb)
Horace Gwynne
Horace Gwynne
Horace "Lefty" Gwynne was a bantamweight professional boxer from Canada, who competed in the 1930s and won the gold medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics. He was still an amateur when he won the gold medal....

Hans Ziglarski
Hans Ziglarski
Hans Ziglarski was a German boxer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics and in the 1932 Summer Olympics....

José Villanueva
José Villanueva
José Luis Villanueva was an amateur boxer from the Philippines who represented his country at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics...

Featherweight
Featherweight
Featherweight is a weight class division in the sport of boxing, Mixed Martial Arts and wrestling .-Professional boxing:A featherweight boxer weighs in at 126 pounds . In the early days of the division, this limit fluctuated. The British have generally always recognized the limit at 126 pounds, but...


(-57.2 kg / 126 lb)
Carmelo Robledo
Carmelo Robledo
Carmelo Ambrosio Robledo is an Argentine boxer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics and in the 1932 Summer Olympics.In 1928 he was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the bantamweight competition....

Josef Schleinkofer
Josef Schleinkofer
Josef Schleinkofer was a German boxer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.-Amateur career:In 1932 he won the silver medal in the featherweight class after losing the final against Carmelo Robledo.- Olympic results :...

Allan Carlsson
Allan Carlsson
Carl Allan Carlsson-Ekbäck was a Swedish boxer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.In 1932 he won the bronze medal in the featherweight class after winning the third place fight against Gaspare Alessandri. He was born in Längbro, Örebro.-References:* *...

Lightweight
Lightweight
Lightweight is a class of athletes in a particular sport, based on their weight. It is also a slang term, indicating insignificance or ineptitude, for example having a low tolerance for alcohol. It can be used as a synonym for "kind of." It may also be used to describe something as being small or...


(-61.2 kg / 135 lb)
Lawrence Stevens
Lawrence Stevens
Lawrence "Laurie" Stevens was a South African boxer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.He was born in Johannesburg and died in Durban....

Thure Ahlqvist
Thure Ahlqvist
Thure Johan Ahlqvist was a Swedish boxer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.In 1932 he won the silver medal in the lightweight class after losing the final against Lawrence Stevens.-References:*...

Nathan Bor
Nathan Bor
Nathan Bor was a American boxer who competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics.-Amateur career:Bor was the 1932 United States Amateur Lightweight Champion and won the bronze medal in the lightweight class after winning the third place fight against Mario Bianchini.-Olympic Results:**Defeated Hyman...

Welterweight
Welterweight
Welterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like kickboxing, taekwondo and mixed martial arts also began to use it for their own weight division system...


(-66.7 kg / 147 lb)
dward Flynn (boxer) Erich Campe
Erich Campe
Erich Campe was a German boxer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.He was born in Berlin.-Amateur career:In 1932 he won the silver medal in the welterweight class after losing the final against Edward Flynn...

Bruno Ahlberg
Bruno Ahlberg
Bruno Valfrid Ahlberg was a Finnish boxer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics....

Middleweight
Middleweight
Middleweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1867...


(-72.6 kg / 160 lb)
Carmen Barth
Carmen Barth
Carmine R. DiBartholomeo , better known as Carmen Barth, was a male American boxer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.He was born in Ohio and died in Lorain, Ohio.-Amateur career:...

Amado Azar
Amado Azar
Amado Azar was an Argentine boxer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.In 1932 he won the silver medal in the middleweight class after losing the final against Carmen Barth....

Ernest Peirce
Ernest Peirce
Ernest "Eddie" Peirce was a South African boxer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.He was born in Somerset West and died in Apache Junction, Arizona, United States....

Light heavyweight
Light heavyweight
In boxing, the light heavyweight division is the weight division between cruiserweight and super middleweight...


(-79.4 kg / 175 lb)
David Carstens
David Carstens
David Daniel Carstens was a South African boxer who competed in the Olympic games in 1932. He won the gold medal in the Light heavyweight competition in Los Angeles, beating Gino Rossi of Italy in the final match....

ino Rossi (boxer) Peter Jørgensen
Peter Jørgensen
Peter Oscar Jørgensen was a Danish boxer who competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics.Born in Hillerød, Hovedstaden he won the bronze medal in 1932 in the light heavyweight class after winning the third place fight against James Murphy.-References:**...

Heavyweight
Heavyweight
Heavyweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Fighters who weigh over 200 pounds are considered heavyweights by the major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Organization, the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Council, and the World Boxing...


(over 79.4 kg/175 lb)
Santiago Lovell
Santiago Lovell
Santiago Albert Lovell was an Argentine boxer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.In 1932 he won the gold medal in the heavyweight class after winning the final against Luigi Rovati....

Luigi Rovati
Luigi Rovati
Luigi Rovati was an Italian boxer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.In 1932 he won the silver medal in the heavyweight class after losing the final against Santiago Lovell.-References:* *...

Frederick Feary
Frederick Feary
Frederick Feary was an American boxer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.Born in Stockton, California Feary was the United States amateur heavyweight champion in 1932. In 1932 he won the bronze medal in the heavyweight class after winning the third place fight against George...


Participating nations


A total of 85 boxers from 18 nations competed at the Los Angeles Games:
(*)

(*) NOTE: Including one South Korean boxer, who competed for Japan.

Medal table

1 ARG 2 1 0 3
2 USA 2 0 3 5
3 RSA 2 0 1 3
4 CAN 1 0 0 1
HUN 1 0 0 1
6 GER 0 3 0 3
7 ITA 0 2 0 2
8 SWE 0 1 1 2
9 MEX 0 1 0 1
10 DEN 0 0 1 1
FIN 0 0 1 1
PHI 0 0 1 1