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Boxing at the 1979 Pan American Games
Boxing pictogram for the games
VenueTrujillo Alto Coliseum, Roberto Clemente Coliseum
DatesJuly 2–14, 1979
Competitors114 from 19 nations
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Boxing competitions at the 1979 Pan American Games in San Juan were held from July 2 to 14 at the Trujillo Alto Coliseum and the Roberto Clemente Coliseum.[1]

Competition schedule

The following was the schedule for the boxing competitions:[2]

P Preliminaries ¼ Quarterfinals ½ Semifinals F Final
Event↓/Date → Mon 2 Tue 3 Wed 4 Thu 5 Fri 6 Sat 7 Sun 8 Mon 9 Tue 10 Wed 11 Thu 12 Fri 13 Sat 14
Men's light flyweight P ¼ ½ F
Men's flyweight P ¼ ½ F
Men's bantamweight P ¼ ½ F
Men's featherweight P ¼ ½ F
Men's lightweight P ¼ ½ F
Men's light welterweight P ¼ ½ F
Men's welterweight P ¼ ½ F
Men's light middleweight ¼ ½ F
Men's middleweight ¼ ½ F
Men's light heavyweight ½ F
Men's heavyweight ½ F

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Puerto Rico)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Cuba5027
2 United States4228
3 Puerto Rico*2417
4 Dominican Republic0145
5 Argentina0123
6 Brazil0112
 Venezuela0112
8 Jamaica0101
9 Canada0022
 Mexico0022
11 Chile0011
 Colombia0011
 Ecuador0011
 Guyana0011
Totals (14 entries)11112143

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Light flyweight
details
Héctor Ramírez
 Cuba
Richard Sandoval
 United States
Eduardo Burgos
 Chile
Gilberto Sosa
 Mexico
Flyweight
details
Alberto Mercado
 Puerto Rico
Pedro Nolasco
 Dominican Republic
Ian Clyde
 Canada
Jerome Coffee
 United States
Bantamweight
details
Jackie Beard
 United States
Luis Pizarro
 Puerto Rico
Héctor Lazaro
 Cuba
Santiago Caballero
 Venezuela
Featherweight
details
Bernard Taylor
 United States
Naudy Piñero
 Venezuela
Fernando Sosa
 Argentina
Felipe Orozco
 Colombia
Lightweight
details
Adolfo Horta
 Cuba
Roberto Andino
 Puerto Rico
Rafael Rodriguez
 Dominican Republic
Guillermo Fernández
 Venezuela
Light welterweight
details
Lemuel Steeples
 United States
Hugo Hernández
 Argentina
José Aguilar
 Cuba
Pedro Cruz
 Puerto Rico
Welterweight
details
Andrés Aldama
 Cuba
Mike McCallum
 Jamaica
José Baret
 Dominican Republic
Javier Colin
 Mexico
Light middleweight
details
José Angel Molina
 Puerto Rico
James Shuler
 United States
Francisco de Jesus
 Brazil
Jorge Amparo
 Dominican Republic
Middleweight
details
José Gomez
 Cuba
Carlos Fonseca
 Brazil
Alfred Thomas
 Guyana
Oscar Florentín
 Argentina
Light heavyweight
details
Tony Tucker
 United States
Dennis Jackson
 Puerto Rico
Patrick Fennel
 Canada
Clemente Ortiz
 Dominican Republic
Heavyweight
details
Teófilo Stevenson
 Cuba
Narciso Maldonado
 Puerto Rico
Rufus Hadley
 United States
Luis Castillo
 Ecuador

Participating nations

A total of 24 countries have qualified athletes. The number of athletes a nation has entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Memoria VIII Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos San Juan, Puerto Rico 1979 (PDF) (in Spanish). 1979 Pan American Games Organising Committee (COPAN 79). 1981. pp. 198, 204, 231.
  2. ^ Memoria VIII Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos San Juan, Puerto Rico 1979 (PDF) (in Spanish). 1979 Pan American Games Organising Committee (COPAN 79). 1981. p. 293.
  3. ^ Memoria VIII Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos San Juan, Puerto Rico 1979 (PDF) (in Spanish). 1979 Pan American Games Organising Committee (COPAN 79). 1981. pp. 290–291.