Boxing at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Dates	27 August-10 September 1972
Competitors	354 from 80 nations
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Boxing at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Light flyweight	men
Flyweight	men
Bantamweight	men
Featherweight	men
Lightweight	men
Light welterweight	men
Welterweight	men
Light middleweight	men
Middleweight	men
Light heavyweight	men
Heavyweight	men
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These are the final results for the boxing competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics. The competition was held from 27 August to 10 September with the participation of 354 fighters from 80 countries.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light flyweight details	György Gedó  Hungary	Kim U-gil  North Korea	Ralph Evans  Great Britain Enrique Rodríguez  Spain
Flyweight details	Georgi Kostadinov  Bulgaria	Leo Rwabwogo  Uganda	Leszek Błażyński  Poland Douglas Rodríguez  Cuba
Bantamweight details	Orlando Martínez  Cuba	Alfonso Zamora  Mexico	Ricardo Carreras  United States George Turpin  Great Britain
Featherweight details	Boris Kuznetsov  Soviet Union	Philip Waruinge  Kenya	András Botos  Hungary Clemente Rojas  Colombia
Lightweight details	Jan Szczepański  Poland	László Orbán  Hungary	Samuel Mbugua  Kenya Alfonso Pérez  Colombia
Light welterweight details	Sugar Ray Seales  United States	Angel Angelov  Bulgaria	Issaka Daborg  Niger Zvonimir Vujin  Yugoslavia
Welterweight details	Emilio Correa  Cuba	János Kajdi  Hungary	Dick Murunga  Kenya Jesse Valdez  United States
Light middleweight details	Dieter Kottysch  West Germany	Wiesław Rudkowski  Poland	Alan Minter  Great Britain Peter Tiepold  East Germany
Middleweight details	Vyacheslav Lemeshev  Soviet Union	Reima Virtanen  Finland	Prince Amartey  Ghana Marvin Johnson  United States
Light heavyweight details	Mate Parlov  Yugoslavia	Gilberto Carrillo  Cuba	Janusz Gortat  Poland Isaac Ikhouria  Nigeria
Heavyweight details	Teófilo Stevenson  Cuba	Ion Alexe  Romania	Peter Hussing  West Germany Hasse Thomsén  Sweden

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	3	1	1	5
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	0	0	2
3	Hungary (HUN)	1	2	1	4
4	Poland (POL)	1	1	2	4
5	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	1	0	2
6	United States (USA)	1	0	3	4
7	West Germany (FRG)	1	0	1	2
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	1	0	1	2
9	Kenya (KEN)	0	1	2	3
10	Finland (FIN)	0	1	0	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	0	1
	North Korea (PRK)	0	1	0	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	1	0	1
	Uganda (UGA)	0	1	0	1
15	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	3	3
16	Colombia (COL)	0	0	2	2
17	East Germany (GDR)	0	0	1	1
	Ghana (GHA)	0	0	1	1
	Niger (NIG)	0	0	1	1
	Nigeria (NGR)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		11	11	22	44