Leo Randolph is a former American

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 boxer

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, who won the Flyweight Gold medal

Olympic medalists in boxing

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 at the 1976 Summer Olympics

1976 Summer Olympics

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Amateur career

Randolph had an outstanding amateur career. Randolph was a product of the Tacoma Boys Club amateur program, along with fellow Olympic Gold Medalist Sugar Ray Seales

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, and future world champions Rocky Lockridge

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 and Johnny Bumphus

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. Randolph was trained as an amateur and professional by Joe Clough, the head trainer at the Tacoma Boys Club. In 1975 he was the National Golden Gloves Flyweight champion. He was a National AAU flyweight champion, and was the 1976 Olympic Flyweight Gold Medalist.

Olympic Results were as follows:

• 1st round bye
• Defeated Massoudi Samatou (Togo) walkover
• Defeated Constantin Gruescu (Romania) 4-1
• Defeated David Larmour (Ireland) 4-1
• Defeated Leszek Błażyński (Poland) 4-1
• Defeated Ramón Duvalón
  Ramón Duvalón
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   (Cuba) 3-2

Professional career

Randolph turned pro in 1978. In 1980, he challenged Ricardo Cardona

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 for the WBA Super Bantamweight Title and won via TKO in the 15th round. In his next fight, he lost his title to Sergio Palma via TKO in the 5th. Randolph retired after the bout.

Personal

Leo now resides in his hometown of Tacoma. After boxing, he started working for the Pierce Transit

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 public bus company in 1988. He works as a Transit Operator

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 and supervisor.

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