Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Boxing at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Alexander Memorial Coliseum
Dates	20 July-4 August 1996
Competitors	355 from 97 nations

Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place in the Alexander Memorial Coliseum in Atlanta. The boxing schedule began on 20 July and ended on 4 August. Twelve boxing events were contested, with the participation of 355 athletes from 97 countries.^[1]

There was significant controversy surrounding the judging of the fight between Floyd Mayweather of the U.S. and Serafim Todorov of Bulgaria, with Todorov being awarded the semi-final bout win which according to many observers, was won by Mayweather.^[2] Additionally, in the final of the light flyweight bout between Bulgaria's Daniel Petrov and Mansueto Velasco of the Philippines, Petrov claimed gold as many spectators believed that Velasco should have won the match and questioned the one-sided scoring of the judges.^[3][4]

Qualification

The following tournaments were used as qualification tournaments for boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Event	Date	Venue
Asian Championships	1 to October 8, 1995	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
European Championships	March 30 to April 7, 1996	Vejle, Denmark
All-Africa Games	13 to September 23, 1995	Harare, Zimbabwe
Africa Qualification Tournament	April/May 1996	Cairo, Egypt
Australia and Oceania Qualification Tournament	October 1995	Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Pan American Games	March 1995	Mar del Plata, Argentina
Central America Qualification Tournament	February 1996	Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
North America Qualification Tournament	April 1996	Halifax, Canada
South American Championships	March 1996	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Asian Qualification Tournament	April 19–20, 1996	Pasay, Philippines

Medal winners

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light flyweight (– 48 kg) details	Daniel Petrov  Bulgaria	Mansueto Velasco  Philippines	Oleg Kiryukhin  Ukraine
			Rafael Lozano  Spain
Flyweight (– 51 kg) details	Maikro Romero  Cuba	Bulat Jumadilov  Kazakhstan	Zoltan Lunka  Germany
			Albert Pakeyev  Russia
Bantamweight (– 54 kg) details	István Kovács  Hungary	Arnaldo Mesa  Cuba	Vichairachanon Khadpo  Thailand
			Raimkul Malakhbekov  Russia
Featherweight (– 57 kg) details	Somluck Kamsing  Thailand	Serafim Todorov  Bulgaria	Pablo Chacón  Argentina
			Floyd Mayweather Jr.  United States
Lightweight (– 60 kg) details	Hocine Soltani  Algeria	Tontcho Tontchev  Bulgaria	Terrance Cauthen  United States
			Leonard Doroftei  Romania
Light welterweight (– 63.5 kg) details	Héctor Vinent  Cuba	Oktay Urkal  Germany	Fathi Missaoui  Tunisia
			Bolat Niyazymbetov  Kazakhstan
Welterweight (– 67 kg) details	Oleg Saitov  Russia	Juan Hernández Sierra  Cuba	Daniel Santos  Puerto Rico
			Marian Simion  Romania
Light middleweight (– 71 kg) details	David Reid  United States	Alfredo Duvergel  Cuba	Yermakhan Ibraimov  Kazakhstan
			Karim Tulaganov  Uzbekistan
Middleweight (– 75 kg' details	Ariel Hernández  Cuba	Malik Beyleroğlu  Turkey	Rhoshii Wells  United States
			Mohamed Bahari  Algeria
Light heavyweight (– 81 kg) details	Vasilii Jirov  Kazakhstan	Lee Seung-Bae  South Korea	Antonio Tarver  United States
			Thomas Ulrich  Germany
Heavyweight (– 91 kg)' details	Félix Savón  Cuba	David Defiagbon  Canada	Nate Jones  United States
			Luan Krasniqi  Germany
Super heavyweight (+ 91 kg) details	Wladimir Klitschko  Ukraine	Paea Wolfgram  Tonga	Duncan Dokiwari  Nigeria
			Alexei Lezin  Russia

Medal table

  *   Host nation (United States)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	4	3	0	7
2	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	2	0	3
3	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	1	2	4
4	United States (USA)*	1	0	5	6
5	Russia (RUS)	1	0	3	4
6	Algeria (ALG)	1	0	1	2
	Thailand (THA)	1	0	1	2
	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	1	2
9	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	0	1
10	Germany (GER)	0	1	3	4
11	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	Philippines (PHI)	0	1	0	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	0	1
	Tonga (TGA)	0	1	0	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	1	0	1
16	Romania (ROU)	0	0	2	2
17	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Nigeria (NGR)	0	0	1	1
	Puerto Rico (PUR)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
	Tunisia (TUN)	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		12	12	24	48

References

1. "Boxing at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
2. "Controversial Olympic loss may have set Mayweather on historic path".
3. "After decades, Recah Trinidad still believes Onyok Velasco was robbed of Olympic gold". 28 August 2021.
4. "20 years after Atlanta, Onyok still pines for gold". August 2016.