Val Barker Trophy
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The Val Barker Trophy, named for boxer Val Barker
Val Barker
Val Barker was a boxer from England, who competed in the Heavyweight division during his career as an amateur.-Amateur career:Barker was a British amateur boxer who won the 1891 ABA, the Amateur Boxing Association of England, Heavyweight championship, boxing out of the Belsize ABC.-Life after...

, is presented every four years to an Olympic
Olympic Games
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 boxing athlete who exemplifies style during competition.

Recipients

Year
Location
Boxer
Nationality
Weight Class
Medal
1936 Berlin Louis Laurie
Louis Laurie
Louis "Lou" Daniel Laurie was an American boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 he won the bronze medal in the flyweight class after winning the third place fight against Alfredo Carlomagno....

 United States Flyweight Bronze
1948 London George Hunter
George Hunter (boxer)
George Hunter was a boxer from South Africa, who competed in the Light Heavyweight division during his career as an amateur.-Amateur career:...

 South Africa Light Heavyweight Gold
1952 Helsinki Norvel Lee
Norvel Lee
Norvel LaFollette Ray Lee was a boxer from the United States, who competed in the Light Heavyweight division during his career as an amateur.-Amateur career:...

 United States Light Heavyweight Gold
1956 Melbourne Richard McTaggart
Richard McTaggart
Richard McTaggart MBE is a retired boxer from Dundee, Scotland, who competed in the Lightweight division during his career as an amateur.-Amateur career:...

 United Kingdom Lightweight Gold
1960 Rome Giovanni Benvenuti  Italy Welterweight Gold
1964 Tokyo Valeri Popenchenko
Valeri Popenchenko
Valeri Vladimirovich Popenchenko was an amateur boxer from the Soviet Union, who competed in the Middleweight division during his career, winning 200 of his 213 fights....

 Soviet Union Middleweight Gold
1968 Mexico City Philip Waruinge
Philip Waruinge
Philip Waruinge is a retired boxer from Kenya, who competed in the featherweight division during his career as an amateur.-Amateur career:...

 Kenya Featherweight Bronze
1972 Munich Teofilo Stevenson
Teófilo Stevenson
Teófilo Stevenson Lawrence or Teófilo Stevenson is a former Cuban amateur boxer. He is one of the only three boxers to win three Olympic gold medals, alongside Hungarian László Papp and fellow Cuban Félix Savón....

 Cuba Heavyweight Gold
1976 Montréal Howard Davis, Jr.  United States Lightweight Gold
1980 Moscow Patrizio Oliva
Patrizio Oliva
Patrizio Oliva is an Italian former boxer, who won the gold medal in the light welterweight division at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as an amateur and the WBA World light welterweight title as a professional....

 Italy Light Welterweight Gold
1984 Los Angeles Paul Gonzales
Paul Gonzales
Paul Garza Gonzales was a Mexican American boxer, who won the light flyweight gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics.-Amateur career:...

 United States Light Flyweight Gold
1988 Seoul Roy Jones, Jr.  United States Light Middleweight Silver
1992 Barcelona Roberto Balado
Roberto Balado
Roberto Balado Méndez was a Cuban boxer. At the 1992 Summer Olympics he won a Gold medal in the men's Super Heavyweight category. Roberto Balado Mendez was marry to Anita Dorena Washington Who giving birth to his Son known as Rob Scott After his grandmother gave him the legacy of his father...

 Cuba Super Heavyweight Gold
1996 Atlanta Vassiliy Jirov
Vassiliy Jirov
Vassiliy "The Tiger" Jirov is a professional Kazakh boxer and former IBF cruiserweight champion, currently fighting out of Las Vegas under Thell Torrence...

 Kazakhstan Light Heavyweight Gold
2000 Sydney Oleg Saitov
Oleg Saitov
Oleg Elekpayevich Saitov is a Russian boxer. He studied journalism in Ryazan, a city of approximately one million people south of Moscow.He won the Olympic gold medal at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics in the welterweight division, and bronze medal in the 2004 Olympics. He was the winner of the...

 Russia Welterweight Gold
2004 Athens Bakhtiyar Artayev
Bakhtiyar Artayev
Bakhtiyar Karipullauly Artayev is a Kazakh boxer who won the only Gold medal for Kazakhstan in the men's welterweight division at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He was also the Winner of the Val Barker Trophy for the outstanding boxer of the 2004 Olympics Games...

 Kazakhstan Welterweight Gold
2008 Beijing Vasyl Lomachenko
Vasyl Lomachenko
Vasyl Anatoliyovich Lomachenko is a Ukrainian amateur boxer who won the silver medal at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships, a gold medal at the 2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships and the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the featherweight division. Lomachenko is coached by...

 Ukraine Featherweight Gold
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