Wolfgang Behrendt

Wolfgang Behrendt.

Wolfgang Behrendt (14 July 1936 in Berlin) was a bantamweight amateur boxer from East Germany, who competed for the United Team of Germany at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Amateur career

He won the gold medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics and became the first Olympic champion for East Germany.^[1]

Record: 188 Wins - 8 Losses - 5 Draws

1955 East German Bantamweight Champion, 3rd place (Flyweight) at European Championships in Berlin.
1956 Gold Medalist (Bantamweight) in a unified German team at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne. Results were:
- Defeated Henrik Ottesen (Denmark) KO-2
- Defeated Owen Reilly (Great Britain) PTS
- Defeated Freddie Gilroy (Ireland) PTS
- Defeated Song Soon-Chun (South Korea) PTS
1957 East German Bantamweight Champion
1960 East German Featherweight Champion

Olympic Boxing Champions in Men's Bantamweight

1904: 105-115 lb (47.6-52.2 kg), 1908: -116 lb (52.6 kg), 1920–1928: 112-118 lb (50.8-53.5 kg), 1932–1936: 112-119 lb (50.8-54.0 kg), 1948–2008: 51-54 kg, 2012: 52-56 kg

1904: Oliver Kirk (USA) 1908: Henry Thomas (GBR) 1920: Clarence Walker (RSA) 1924: William Smith (RSA) 1928: Vittorio Tamagnini (ITA) 1932: Horace Gwynne (CAN) 1936: Ulderico Sergo (ITA) 1948: Tibor Csík (HUN) 1952: Pentti Hämäläinen (FIN) 1956: Wolfgang Behrendt (EUA) 1960: Oleg Grigoryev (URS) 1964: Takao Sakurai (JPN) 1968: Valerian Sokolov (URS) 1972: Orlando Martínez (CUB) 1976: Gu Yong-ju (PRK) 1980: Juan Hernández (CUB) 1984: Maurizio Stecca (ITA) 1988: Kennedy McKinney (USA) 1992: Joel Casamayor (CUB) 1996: István Kovács (HUN) 2000–2004: Guillermo Rigondeaux (CUB) 2008: Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan (MGL) 2012: Luke Campbell (GBR)