Torsten May

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Medal record
Competitor for Germany
Men’s Boxing
Olympic Games
Gold	1992 Barcelona	Light Heavyweight
World Amateur Championships
Gold	1991 Sydney	Light Heavyweight

Torsten May (born October 9, 1969, in Glauchau, Saxony) was a German boxer, who won the Light Heavyweight Gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

[edit] Amateur career

1991 German National Light Heavyweight champion
1991 Won World Championship as a Light Heavyweight in Sydney, Australia. Results were:
- Defeated Patrice Aouissi (France) points
- Defeated Orestes Solano (Cuba) points
- Defeated Mehmet Gurgen (Turkey) points
- Defeated Andrei Kurnyavka (Russia) points
Olympic Gold Medalist in Barcelona 1992 as a Light Heavyweight. Results were:
- Defeated Gil-Nam Kim (North Korea) points
- Defeated Dale Brown (boxer) (Canada) points
- Defeated Montell Griffin (United States) points
- Defeated Wojciech Bartnik (Poland) points
- Defeated Rostislav Zaulitchny (Unified Team/ C.I.S) points

[edit] Professional career

May began his professional career the following year and won his first 15 bouts in the cruiserweight division, setting up a fight for the vacant IBF cruiserweight title against Adolpho Washington. Washington won by a narrow unanimous decision, a loss which May avenged in 1999 via a 9th round TKO after Washington lost his title. May never again fought for a title, and lost via TKO in the 8th round to Alexander Gurov in 2001 in a match that ended May's career.