Boxing at the 1968 Summer Olympics
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The boxing programme of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico was held at the Arena México. Medals were awarded in eleven events, with each event corresponding to a recognized weight division of male boxers.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light flyweight details	Francisco Rodríguez   Venezuela	Jee Yong-ju   South Korea	Hubert Skrzypczak   Poland
			Harlan Marbley   United States
Flyweight details	Ricardo Delgado   Mexico	Artur Olech   Poland	Servílio de Oliveira   Brazil
			Leo Rwabwogo   Uganda
Bantamweight details	Valerian Sokolov   Soviet Union	Eridadi Mukwanga   Uganda	Eiji Morioka   Japan
			Chang Kyou-chul   South Korea
Featherweight details	Antonio Roldán   Mexico	Al Robinson   United States	Philip Waruinge   Kenya
			Ivan Mihailov   Bulgaria
Lightweight details	Ronnie Harris   United States	Józef Grudzień   Poland	Zvonimir Vujin   Yugoslavia
			Calistrat Cuțov   Romania
Light welterweight details	Jerzy Kulej   Poland	Enrique Regüeiferos   Cuba	Arto Nilsson   Finland
			Jim Wallington   United States
Welterweight details	Manfred Wolke   East Germany	Joseph Bessala   Cameroon	Mario Guilloti   Argentina
			Vladimir Musalimov   Soviet Union
Light middleweight details	Boris Lagutin   Soviet Union	Rolando Garbey   Cuba	John Baldwin   United States
			Günther Meier   West Germany
Middleweight details	Chris Finnegan   Great Britain	Aleksei Kiselyov   Soviet Union	Agustín Zaragoza   Mexico
			Alfred Jones   United States
Light heavyweight details	Danas Pozniakas   Soviet Union	Ion Monea   Romania	Georgi Stankov   Bulgaria
			Stanisław Dragan   Poland
Heavyweight details	George Foreman   United States	Jonas Čepulis   Soviet Union	Giorgio Bambini   Italy
			Joaquín Rocha   Mexico

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	3	2	1	6
2	United States (USA)	2	1	4	7
3	Mexico (MEX)	2	0	2	4
4	Poland (POL)	1	2	2	5
5	East Germany (GDR)	1	0	0	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	0	1
	Venezuela (VEN)	1	0	0	1
8	Cuba (CUB)	0	2	0	2
9	Romania (ROU)	0	1	1	2
	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	1	2
	Uganda (UGA)	0	1	1	2
12	Cameroon (CMR)	0	1	0	1
13	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	2	2
14	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	Kenya (KEN)	0	0	1	1
	West Germany (FRG)	0	0	1	1
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (21 entries)		11	11	22	44

Participating nations

Nation	-48kg	-51kg	-54kg	-57kg	-60kg	-63.5kg	-67kg	-71kg	-75kg	-81kg	+81kg	Total
Algeria				X			X					2
Argentina	X	X	X	X	X		X	X				7
Australia	X	X	X			X						4
Austria								X		X		2
Brazil		X					X					2
Bulgaria	X		X	X	X	X	X		X	X	X	8
Burma	X				X							2
Cameroon					X	X	X		X			4
Canada		X			X	X	X					4
Ceylon	X											1
Chile			X		X	X	X	X	X			6
Chinese Taipei		X	X		X							3
Costa Rica						X		X				2
Cuba	X	X	X	X	X		X	X	X	X	X	10
Czechoslovakia						X	X	X	X	X		5
Denmark							X	X				2
Dominican Republic					X	X						2
Ecuador			X			X						2
East Germany	X		X		X	X	X	X		X	X	8
Egypt	X			X				X		X	X	5
Ethiopia				X	X		X	X				4
Finland			X	X	X	X	X					5
France			X	X	X		X	X		X		6
Ghana	X	X	X		X	X	X				X	7
Great Britain		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X		X	9
Greece			X				X			X		3
Guatemala			X					X				2
Guyana			X						X			2
Hungary	X	X	X		X	X	X					6
Ireland		X	X	X	X	X		X				6
Italy	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	11
Jamaica				X					X			2
Japan	X	X	X	X								4
Kenya			X	X		X		X				4
Mali										X		1
Mexico	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	11
Morocco	X	X		X			X		X			5
Netherlands									X		X	2
Nicaragua			X	X	X							3
Niger			X				X					2
Nigeria	X		X		X	X				X		5
Norway				X								1
Peru					X				X			2
Philippines	X	X	X	X	X							5
Poland	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	11
Puerto Rico			X	X	X	X			X	X		6
Romania		X	X	X	X	X	X	X		X	X	9
Sierra Leone											X	1
South Korea	X	X	X	X	X	X	X					7
Soviet Union	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	11
Spain			X	X	X	X	X	X				6
Sudan				X	X			X				3
Sweden			X	X			X					3
Tanzania									X			1
Thailand		X	X			X						3
Tunisia			X	X	X	X						4
Turkey	X	X		X	X	X	X					6
Uganda	X	X	X		X	X	X	X	X			8
United States	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	11
Uruguay					X	X		X	X			4
Venezuela	X	X			X	X						4
West Germany			X	X		X	X	X	X	X	X	8
Yugoslavia				X	X	X			X		X	5
Zambia	X	X	X				X					4
Total: 64 NOCs	24	25	39	32	37	35	33	27	22	18	16	308

Further reading

• Florio, John; Shapiro, Ouisie (2013). One Punch from the Promised Land: Leon Spinks, Michael Spinks, and the Myth of the Heavyweight Title. Lyons Press. p. 279. ISBN  978-0-7627-8300-7.

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