Val Barker Trophy

Val Barker Trophy
Awarded for demonstration of excellence in Olympic boxing
Presented by AIBA
First awarded 1936
Winners Claressa Shields
Hasanboy Dusmatov

The Val Barker Trophy is presented every four years to the most "outstanding boxer" at the Olympic Games.[1] In theory, the award goes to the top "pound for pound" boxer in the Olympics.[1] The winner is selected by a committee of International Boxing Association (amateur) (AIBA) officials.[1] The trophy is named after British boxer Val Barker who won the Amateur Boxing Association of England heavyweight title in 1891,[2] before becoming the secretary of the AIBA between 1926 and 1929.[1]

The inaugural recipient of the Val Barker Trophy was American flyweight Louis Laurie who won bronze at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. He is one of just three boxers who did not win gold at the same Olympics in which they were presented with the trophy, the others being Kenyan featherweight Philip Waruinge (bronze at the 1968 Games) and American light middleweight Roy Jones Jr. (silver at the 1988 Games). American boxers are the most successful with six awards, while Kazakhstani boxers have won the trophy on three occasions. From 2016, two Val Barker Trophies were presented at every Olympic boxing competition, one for men and one for women.[1] The inaugural female winner was middleweight Claressa Shields who became the first American boxer to win two consecutive Olympic gold medals when she defeated Dutch boxer Nouchka Fontijn in Rio de Janeiro.[3]

Recipients

Soviet middleweight Valeri Popenchenko won the Val Barker Trophy and Olympic gold at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Claressa Shields became the first recipient of the female variant of trophy, after winning the gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro games in 2016.
Games Location Boxer Nationality Weight class Medal Ref(s)
1936 Berlin Laurie, LouisLouis Laurie  USA Flyweight Bronze [4]
1948 London Hunter, GeorgeGeorge Hunter  RSA Light heavyweight Gold [5]
1952 Helsinki Lee, NorvelNorvel Lee  USA Light heavyweight Gold [6]
1956 Melbourne McTaggart, DickDick McTaggart  GBR Lightweight Gold [7]
1960 Rome Benvenuti, NinoNino Benvenuti  ITA Welterweight Gold [8]
1964 Tokyo Popenchenko, ValeriValeri Popenchenko  URS Middleweight Gold [9]
1968 Mexico City Waruinge, PhilipPhilip Waruinge  KEN Featherweight Bronze [10]
1972 Munich Stevenson, TeófiloTeófilo Stevenson  CUB Heavyweight Gold [11]
1976 Montréal Davis Jr., HowardHoward Davis Jr.  USA Lightweight Gold [12]
1980 Moscow Oliva, PatrizioPatrizio Oliva  ITA Light welterweight Gold [13]
1984 Los Angeles Gonzales, PaulPaul Gonzales  USA Light flyweight Gold [14]
1988 Seoul Jones Jr., RoyRoy Jones Jr.  USA Light middleweight Silver [12]
1992 Barcelona Balado, RobertoRoberto Balado  CUB Super heavyweight Gold [15]
1996 Atlanta Jirov, VassiliyVassiliy Jirov  KAZ Light heavyweight Gold [16]
2000 Sydney Saitov, OlegOleg Saitov  RUS Welterweight Gold [17]
2004 Athens Artayev, BakhtiyarBakhtiyar Artayev  KAZ Welterweight Gold [18]
2008 Beijing Lomachenko, VasylVasyl Lomachenko  UKR Featherweight Gold [19]
2012 London Sapiyev, SerikSerik Sapiyev  KAZ Welterweight Gold [20]
2016 Rio de Janeiro Dusmatov, HasanboyHasanboy Dusmatov  UZB Men's light flyweight Gold [1]
Shields, ClaressaClaressa Shields  USA Women's middleweight Gold

References

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  3. ↑ Armen Graham, Bryan (21 August 2016). "Claressa Shields wins second straight Olympic boxing gold for USA". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 6 March 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
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  6. ↑ "Norvel Lee Bio, Stats, and Results". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 31 July 2017. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
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  11. ↑ Williamson, Marcus (12 June 2012). "Teofilo Stevenson: Boxer regarded as the greatest never to fight for money". The Independent. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  12. 1 2 Seekins, Briggs (28 February 2014). "The Best Fighters in Boxing History Who Were Also Olympic Medalists". Bleacher Report. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  13. ↑ "Il primo grande «romanzo» italiano della boxe" (in Italian). Comune de Napoli. Archived from the original on 31 July 2017. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  14. ↑ Smith, Charles (22 August 1993). "Gonzales: Will He Be Sitting Pretty Again? : After Personal and Professional Setbacks, '84 Olympic Champ Is Ready to Return to the Ring". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  15. ↑ Raffo, Dave (9 August 1992). "Cubans finish with 7 boxing golds". UPI. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  16. ↑ Lillis, Steve (19 June 2015). "Cuba Domadores v Astana Arlans Kazakhstan will be one of the best boxing matches our fans have ever seen". BoxNation. Archived from the original on 31 July 2017. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  17. ↑ Fischer, Doug. "10: Top Olympic fighters of all time". The Ring. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  18. ↑ "Artayev wins Athens award". BBC Sport. 29 August 2004. Archived from the original on 30 August 2004. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  19. ↑ "Lomachenko wins Val Barker trophy". Reuters. 24 August 2008. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  20. ↑ "London 2012 gold medalist Serik Sapiyev returns to Rio 2016 Olympic Boxing arena in a new role for Kazakhstan". AIBA. 13 August 2016. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
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