1978 World Amateur Boxing Championships

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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.

[edit] MEDAL WINNERS

EVENT Gold GOLD Silver SILVER Bronze BRONZE
Light Flyweight
(– 48 kilograms)		 Stephen Muchoki
Kenya		 Jorge Hernández
Cuba		 Armando Guevara
Venezuela

Richard Sandoval
United States
Flyweight
(– 51 kilograms)		 Henryk Średnicki
Poland		 Héctor Ramírez
Cuba		 Alexander Mikhailov
Soviet Union

Ishi Koki
Japan
Bantamweight
(– 54 kilograms)		 Adolfo Horta
Cuba		 Fazlija Szacirović
Yugoslavia		 Stephan Förster
East Germany

Chung Kim Chil
South Korea
Featherweight
(– 57 kilograms)		 Ángel Herrera
Cuba		 Bratislav Ristić
Yugoslavia		 Roman Gotfryd
Poland

Antonio Esperragozza
Venezuela
Lightweight
(– 60 kilograms)		 Andeh Davidson
Nigeria		 Vladimir Sorokin
Soviet Union		 René Weller
West Germany

Lutz Käsebier
East Germany
Light Welterweight
(– 63,5 kilograms)		 Valery Lvov
Soviet Union		 Memet Bogujevci
Yugoslavia		 Jean-Claude Ruiz
France

Karl-Heinz Krüger
East Germany
Welterweight
(– 67 kilograms)		 Valery Rachkov
Soviet Union		 Miodrag Perunović
Yugoslavia		 Roosevelt Green
United States

Ernst Müller
West Germany
Light Middleweight
(– 71 kilograms)		 Viktor Savchenko
Soviet Union		 Luis Martínez
Cuba		 Jerzy Rybicki
Poland

Ilya Ilyev
Bulgaria
Middleweight
(– 75 kilograms)		 José Gómez
Cuba		 Tarmo Uusivirta
Finland		 Slobodan Kačar
Yugoslavia

Ilya Angelov
Bulgaria
Light Heavyweight
(– 81 kilograms)		 Sixto Soria
Cuba		 Tadija Kačar
Yugoslavia		 Nikolay Erofyeev
Soviet Union

Herbert Bauch
East Germany
Heavyweight
(> 81 kilograms)		 Teófilo Stevenson
Cuba		 Dragomir Vujković
Yugoslavia		 Carlos Rivera
Venezuela

Jürgen Fanghänel
East Germany



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World Amateur Boxing Cchampionships
Men's

Havana 1974 | Belgrade 1978 | Munich 1982 | Reno 1986 | Moscow 1989 | Sydney 1991 | Tampere 1993 | Berlin 1995 | Budapest 1997 | Houston 1999 | Belfast 2001 | Bangkok 2003 | Mianyang 2005 | Moscow 2007
Women's
Scranton 2001 | Antalya 2002 | Podolsk 2005 | New Delhi 2006


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