Boxing at the 1979 Pan American Games

Boxing at the 1979 Pan American Games
Boxing pictogram for the games
Venue	Trujillo Alto Coliseum, Roberto Clemente Coliseum
Dates	July 2–14, 1979
Competitors	114 from 19 nations
«1975 1983»

Boxing competitions at the 1979 Pan American Games in San Juan were held from July 2 to 14 at the Trujillo Alto Coliseum and the Roberto Clemente Coliseum.^[1]

Competition schedule

The following was the schedule for the boxing competitions:^[2]

P

Preliminaries

¼

Quarterfinals

½

Semifinals

F

Final

Event↓/Date →	Mon 2	Tue 3	Wed 4	Thu 5	Fri 6	Sat 7	Sun 8	Mon 9	Tue 10	Wed 11	Thu 12	Fri 13	Sat 14
Men's light flyweight				P			¼			½			F
Men's flyweight			P			¼				½			F
Men's bantamweight					P				¼		½		F
Men's featherweight	P				¼					½			F
Men's lightweight				P			¼			½			F
Men's light welterweight		P						¼			½		F
Men's welterweight			P					¼		½			F
Men's light middleweight						¼					½		F
Men's middleweight									¼		½		F
Men's light heavyweight											½		F
Men's heavyweight											½		F

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Puerto Rico)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba	5	0	2	7
2	United States	4	2	2	8
3	Puerto Rico*	2	4	1	7
4	Dominican Republic	0	1	4	5
5	Argentina	0	1	2	3
	Venezuela	0	1	2	3
7	Brazil	0	1	1	2
8	Jamaica	0	1	0	1
9	Canada	0	0	2	2
	Mexico	0	0	2	2
11	Chile	0	0	1	1
	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Ecuador	0	0	1	1
	Guyana	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		11	11	22	44

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light flyweight details	Héctor Ramírez  Cuba	Richard Sandoval  United States	Eduardo Burgos  Chile
			Gilberto Sosa  Mexico
Flyweight details	Alberto Mercado  Puerto Rico	Pedro Nolasco  Dominican Republic	Ian Clyde  Canada
			Jerome Coffee  United States
Bantamweight details	Jackie Beard  United States	Luis Pizarro  Puerto Rico	Héctor Lazaro  Cuba
			Santiago Caballero  Venezuela
Featherweight details	Bernard Taylor  United States	Naudy Piñero  Venezuela	Fernando Sosa  Argentina
			Felipe Orozco  Colombia
Lightweight details	Adolfo Horta  Cuba	Roberto Andino  Puerto Rico	Rafael Rodriguez  Dominican Republic
			Guillermo Fernández  Venezuela
Light welterweight details	Lemuel Steeples  United States	Hugo Hernández  Argentina	José Aguilar  Cuba
			Pedro Cruz  Puerto Rico
Welterweight details	Andrés Aldama  Cuba	Mike McCallum  Jamaica	José Baret  Dominican Republic
			Javier Colin  Mexico
Light middleweight details	José Angel Molina  Puerto Rico	James Shuler  United States	Francisco de Jesus  Brazil
			Jorge Amparo  Dominican Republic
Middleweight details	José Gómez Mustelier  Cuba	Carlos Fonseca  Brazil	Alfred Thomas  Guyana
			Oscar Florentín  Argentina
Light heavyweight details	Tony Tucker  United States	Dennis Jackson  Puerto Rico	Patrick Fennel  Canada
			Clemente Ortiz  Dominican Republic
Heavyweight details	Teófilo Stevenson  Cuba	Narciso Maldonado  Puerto Rico	Rufus Hadley  United States
			Luis Castillo  Ecuador

Participating nations

A total of 24 countries have qualified athletes.^[3]

•  Argentina (6 athletes)
•  Barbados (2)
•  Bahamas (4)
•  Belize (3)
•  Brazil (10)
•  Canada (8)
•  Chile (5)
•  Colombia (5)
•  Cuba (11)
•  Dominican Republic (9)
•  Ecuador (4)
•  El Salvador (4)
•  Guyana (5)
•  Jamaica (2)
•  Mexico (7)
•  Puerto Rico (11)
•  United States (11)
•  Venezuela (5)
•  Virgin Islands (2)

See also

• Boxing at the 1980 Summer Olympics

References

1. Memoria VIII Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos San Juan, Puerto Rico 1979 (PDF) (in Spanish). 1979 Pan American Games Organising Committee (COPAN 79). 1981. pp. 198, 204, 231. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-11. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
2. Memoria VIII Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos San Juan, Puerto Rico 1979 (PDF) (in Spanish). 1979 Pan American Games Organising Committee (COPAN 79). 1981. p. 293. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-11. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
3. Memoria VIII Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos San Juan, Puerto Rico 1979 (PDF) (in Spanish). 1979 Pan American Games Organising Committee (COPAN 79). 1981. pp. 290–291. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-11. Retrieved 2019-08-20.

• Amateur Boxing