The Men's 1991 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Sydney, Australia, from November 15 to 23. The sixth edition of this competition, held nearly a year before the Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, was organised by the world's governing body for amateur boxing, AIBA.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	4	2	3	9
2	Bulgaria (BUL)	2	1	2	5
3	Germany (GER)	2	1	1	4
4	Soviet Union (URS)	1	4	2	7
5	United States (USA)	1	1	1	3
6	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
8	North Korea (PRK)	0	1	1	2
	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	1	2
10	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
11	Australia (AUS)	0	0	2	2
	Canada (CAN)	0	0	2	2
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	2	2
14	Algeria (ALG)	0	0	1	1
	Egypt (EGY)	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	1	1
	Nigeria (NGR)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	Puerto Rico (PUR)	0	0	1	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		12	12	24	48

Medal winners

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light Flyweight (– 48 kilograms)	Eric Griffin United States	Rogelio Marcelo Cuba	Nelson Dieppa Puerto Rico Daniel Petrov Bulgaria
Flyweight (– 51 kilograms)	István Kovács Hungary	Choi Chol-Su North Korea	Hassan Mustafa Egypt Yuliyan Strogov Bulgaria
Bantamweight (– 54 kilograms)	Serafim Todorov Bulgaria	Enrique Carrion Cuba	Vladislav Antonov Soviet Union Li Gwang-Sik North Korea
Featherweight (– 57 kilograms)	Kirkor Kirkorov Bulgaria	Park Duk-Kyu South Korea	Hocine Soltani Algeria Arnaldo Mesa Cuba
Lightweight (– 60 kilograms)	Marco Rudolph Germany	Artur Grigoryan Soviet Union	Justin Rowsell Australia Vasile Nistor Romania
Light Welterweight (– 63,5 kilograms)	Konstantin Tszyu Soviet Union	Vernon Forrest United States	Moses James Nigeria Candelario Duvergel Cuba
Welterweight (– 67 kilograms)	Juan Hernández Sierra Cuba	Andreas Otto Germany	Francisc Vastag Romania Stefan Scriggins Australia
Light Middleweight (– 71 kilograms)	Juan Carlos Lemus Cuba	Israel Akopkokhyan Soviet Union	Torsten Schmitz Germany Ole Klemetsen Norway
Middleweight (– 75 kilograms)	Tommaso Russo Italy	Aleksandr Lebziak Soviet Union	Chris Johnson Canada Ramón Garbey Cuba
Light Heavyweight (– 81 kilograms)	Torsten May Germany	Andrey Kurnyavka Soviet Union	Mehmet Gurgen Turkey Dale Brown Canada
Heavyweight (– 91 kilograms)	Félix Savón Cuba	Arnold Vanderlyde Netherlands	David Tua New Zealand Chae Sung-Bae South Korea
Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kilograms)	Roberto Balado Cuba	Svilen Rusinov Bulgaria	Yevgeny Belousov Soviet Union Larry Donald United States