1978 World Amateur Boxing Championships
The Men's 1978 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from May 6 to 20. The second edition of this competition, held two years before the Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union was organised by the world governing body for amateur boxing AIBA.
Medal table
1 | Cuba | 5 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
2 | Soviet Union | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
3 | Poland | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
4 | Kenya | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Nigeria | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
6 | Yugoslavia | 0 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
7 | Finland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
8 | East Germany | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
9 | Venezuela | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
10 | Bulgaria | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
United States | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
West Germany | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
13 | France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
South Korea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Medal winners
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Light Flyweight (– 48 kilograms) |
Stephen Muchoki Kenya |
Jorge Hernández Cuba |
Armando Guevara Venezuela Richard Sandoval |
Flyweight (– 51 kilograms) |
Henryk Średnicki Poland |
Héctor Ramírez Cuba |
Alexander Mikhailov Soviet Union Ishi Koki |
Bantamweight (– 54 kilograms) |
Adolfo Horta Cuba |
Fazlija Szacirović Yugoslavia |
Stephan Förster East Germany Chung Kim Chil |
Featherweight (– 57 kilograms) |
Ángel Herrera Cuba |
Bratislav Ristić Yugoslavia |
Roman Gotfryd Poland Antonio Esparragoza |
Lightweight (– 60 kilograms) |
Andeh Davidson Nigeria |
Vladimir Sorokin Soviet Union |
René Weller West Germany Lutz Käsebier |
Light Welterweight (– 63,5 kilograms) |
Valery Lvov Soviet Union |
Memet Bogujevci Yugoslavia |
Jean-Claude Ruiz France Karl-Heinz Krüger |
Welterweight (– 67 kilograms) |
Valery Rachkov Soviet Union |
Miodrag Perunović Yugoslavia |
Roosevelt Green United States Ernst Müller |
Light Middleweight (– 71 kilograms) |
Viktor Savchenko Soviet Union |
Luis Martínez Cuba |
Jerzy Rybicki Poland Ilya Ilyev |
Middleweight (– 75 kilograms) |
José Gómez Cuba |
Tarmo Uusivirta Finland |
Slobodan Kačar Yugoslavia Ilya Angelov |
Light Heavyweight (– 81 kilograms) |
Sixto Soria Cuba |
Tadija Kačar Yugoslavia |
Nikolay Erofyeev Soviet Union Herbert Bauch |
Heavyweight (> 81 kilograms) |
Teófilo Stevenson Cuba |
Dragomir Vujković Yugoslavia |
Carlos Rivera Venezuela Jürgen Fanghänel |