Boxing at the 1983 Pan American Games

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Boxing at the 1983 Pan American Games

The boxing

Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human 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....
tournament at the 1983 Pan American Games
1983 Pan American Games

The 9th Pan American Games were held in Caracas, Venezuela from August 14 to August 29, 1983....
was held in Caracas, Venezuela, from August 14 to August 29. The super heavyweight

Super heavyweight

In amateur boxing, the super heavyweight division is a weight class division for fighters weighing in excess of 91 kilograms . Introduced for the 1984 Summer Olympics, the division, despite its grandiose name, is merely the amateur equivalent of the professional heavyweight division....
division was included for the first time.

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MEDAL WINNERS

Manoelito Santos
BrazilSteve McCrory

Steve McCrory

Steve McCrory was an United States boxing, who won the Olympic medalists in boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics. A year earlier he won a bronze medal at the Boxing at the 1983 Pan American Games....

United States Floya Favors
United StatesRafael Zuniga

Rafael Zuñiga

Rafael Zu?iga Medrano is a retired Colombian boxing, who represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in the Men's Featherweight division....

Colombia Angel Beltre
Dominican Republic Giovanni Sepulveda
Dominican Republic Antonio Madureira
Brazil Héctor Ortíz
Puerto Rico John Smith
Trinidad & Tobago Carlos Salazar
Venezuela Alex Stewart
Jamaica

EVENT	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
Light Flyweight (– 48 kilograms)	Rafael Ramos Rafael Ramos Rafael Ramos is a retired boxing from Puerto Rico. He competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics and twice won a medal at the Pan American Games during his career.... Puerto Rico	Paul Gonzales Paul Gonzales Paul Garza Gonzales was an United States boxing, who won the Olympic medalists in boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics.... United States	Dominican Republic
Flyweight (– 51 kilograms)	Cuba	Laureano Ramírez Laureano Ramírez Laureano Ram?rez Padilla is a retired Dominican Republic boxing, who represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in the Men's Flyweight division.... Dominican Republic	Venezuela
Bantamweight (– 54 kilograms)	Manuel Vilchez Manuel Vilchez Manuel Vilchez is a former Venezuelan boxing. At the 1984 Summer Olympics he lost in the first round of the men's bantamweight division to Uganda's John Siryakibbe.... Venezuela	Pedro Nolasco Pedro Nolasco Pedro Nolasco was a Dominican Republic boxing, who won the bronze medal in the men's bantamweight category at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.... Dominican Republic	Robinson Pitalua Robinsón Pitalúa Robinson Pital?a T?mara was a Colombian boxing, who represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in the Men's Bantamweight division.... Colombia
Featherweight (– 57 kilograms)	Adolfo Horta Adolfo Horta Adolfo Horta is a retired boxing from Cuba, who won the silver medal in the Men's Featherweight division at age 22 at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.... Cuba	Puerto Rico	United States
Lightweight (– 60 kilograms)	Pernell Whitaker Pernell Whitaker Pernell Whitaker , nicknamed "Sweet Pea," is a retired professional Boxing, who is considered among the greatest of all-time. A native of Norfolk, Virginia, Whitaker was the lightweight silver medalist at the 1982 World Amateur Boxing Championships, followed by the gold medal at the Boxing at the 1983 Pan American Games and the 1984 Summer... United States	Cuba	Alberto Cortez Alberto Cortez Alberto Cortez is an Argentina singer and songwriter. Cortez and his wife live in Madrid.Cortez was born in Rancul, province of de La Pampa, Argentina, March 11 1940.... Argentina
Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kilograms)	Cuba	Jerry Page Jerry Page Jerry Louis Page was an United States boxing, who won the Olympic medalists in boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics. A year earlier he won a silver medal at the Boxing at the 1983 Pan American Games.... United States	Genaro Léon Genaro Léon Genaro L?on is a former professional boxer. He fought at welterweight.... Mexico
Welterweight (– 67 kilograms)	United States	Cuba	Venezuela
Light Middleweight (– 71 kilograms)	Cuba	Dennis Milton Dennis Milton Dennis Milton is a retired United States boxing.... United States	Argentina
Middleweight (– 75 kilograms)	Cuba	Puerto Rico	Pedro Gamarro Pedro Gamarro Pedro Gamarro is a retired boxing from Venezuela, who represented his native country at the Boxing at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.... Venezuela
Light Heavyweight (– 81 kilograms)	Pablo Romero Pablo Romero Pablo Romero Hernandez is a former Cuban amateur boxer best known to win the light-heavyweight gold medal at the World Championships.... Cuba	Evander Holyfield Evander Holyfield Evander Holyfield is a professional boxing from the United States and a multiple world champion in both the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions, earning him the nickname "The Real Deal".... United States	Argentina
Heavyweight (– 91 kilograms)	Cuba	Henry Tillman Henry Tillman Henry Durand Tillman is a former American boxer.... United States	Dominican Republic
Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kilograms)	Cuba	Venezuela	Tyrell Biggs Tyrell Biggs Tyrell Biggs is an United States heavyweight boxing. He won the Olympic medalists in boxing at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, CA in boxing at the Superheavyweight division, after gaining bronze the previous year at the Boxing at the 1983 Pan American Games.... United States

Medal Table

1	Cuba Cuba The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....	8	2	0	10
2	United States United States The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...	2	5	4	11
3	Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a Autonomy Territories of the United States of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....	1	2	1	4
4	Venezuela Venezuela Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....	1	1	4	6
5	Dominican Republic Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are List of divided islands, Saint Martin being the other....	0	2	4	6
6	Argentina Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....	0	0	2	2
–	Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....	0	0	2	2
–	Colombia Colombia Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....	0	0	2	2
9	Mexico Mexico The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....	0	0	1	1
–	Jamaica Jamaica Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length and as much as in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. It is about south of Cuba, and west of the island of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated....	0	0	1	1
–	Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an island country in the southern Caribbean, lying northeast of the South American country of Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles....	0	0	1	1

Boxing at the 1983 Pan American Games

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