Reiner Gies
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | March 12, 1963 | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||
Reiner Gies (born March 12, 1963 in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate) was a German boxer who won a Light Welterweight Bronze Medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics for West Germany. Four years earlier, when Los Angeles, California hosted the Games, he was eliminated in the quarterfinals.
Olympic results
Represented West Germany as a lightweight at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
- 1st round bye
- Defeated Samir Khenyab (Iraq) 4-1
- Defeated John Kalbhenn (Canada) 5-0
- Lost to Pernell Whitaker (United States) 0-5
Represented West Germany as a Light Welterweight at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, capturing a bronze medal.
- Defeated Basil Maelagi (Solomon Islands) walkover
- Defeated Lórant Szabó (Hungary) 5-0
- Defeated Adrian Carew (Guyana) 3-2
- Defeated Sodnomdarjaagiin Altansükh (Mongolia) 4-1
- Lost to Vyacheslav Yanovskiy (Soviet Union) KO 1
Pro career
Gies turned pro in 1991 and had limited success, losing two fights to journeymen and retiring with a record of 13-2-0.
External links
- Boxing record for Reiner Gies from BoxRec (registration required)
 | This biographical article related to a German boxer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This article about a German Olympic medalist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- 1963 births
- Living people
- People from Kaiserslautern
- Boxers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Boxers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers of West Germany
- Olympic bronze medalists for West Germany
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- German male boxers
- Sportspeople from Rhineland-Palatinate
- German boxing biography stubs
- German Olympic medalist stubs