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Bantamweight

NOTABLE BANTAMWEIGHTS

Ruben Olivares

Carlos Zarate

Panama Al Brown

Manuel Ortiz

Lionel Rose

Fighting Harada

Alfonso Zamora

Sixto Escobar

Jimmy Carruthers

Eder Jofre

Pete Herman

BANTAMWEIGHT OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS

1904 Oliver Kirk , USA

1908 Henry Thomas , Great Britain

1920 Clarence Walker , South Africa

1924 William Smith , South Africa

1928 Vittorio Tamagnimi , Italy

1932 Horace Gwynne , Canada

1936 Ulderico Sergo , Italy

1948 Tibor Csik , Hungary

1952 Pentti Hamalainen , Finland

1956 Wolfgang Behrendt , East Germany

1960 Oleg Grigoryev , Soviet Union

1964 Takao Sakurai , Japan

1968 Valeri Sokolov , Soviet Union

1972 Orlando Martinez , Cuba

1976 Yong-Jo Gu , Democratic People's Republic Of Korea

1980 Juan Hernandez , Cuba

1984 Maurizo Stecca , Italy

1988 Kennedy McKinney , USA

1992 Joel Casamayor , Cuba

1996 Istvan Kovacs , Hungary

2000 Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz , Cuba

2004 Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz, Cuba

SEE ALSO

Boxing Weight Classes

Wrestling Weight Classes

Reigning Boxing Champions