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Host City: Seoul, South Korea
Venue(s): Jamsil Students' Gymnasium, Seoul Sports Complex, Seoul
Date Started: September 21, 1988
Date Finished: October 2, 1988
Format: Single elimination tournament.
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For reasons of non-selection and boycott the competition was bereft of both of the most recent World Championships finalists, the World Cup winner and the winners of the European Championships and Pan-American Games. Twenty-year-old American [Andrew Maynard], a soldier stationed at Fort Carson in Colorado, was able to benefit from their absence and win a deserved Olympic title. The gold medal bout against [Nurmagomed Shanavazov] of the Soviet Union was not a thing of beauty and was described by a newspaper columnist as like watching )Two angry wildebeests shoulder-charging each other around the ring) but the American did enough to win a clear decision. Maynard, who had joined the Army after being involved in drug dealing and robbery, began a professional career that failed to live up to his early promise and lost 13 of his 39 bouts.
Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | |
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1 | Andrew Maynard | 24 | United States | USA | Gold | |
2 | Nurmagomed Shanavazov | 23 | Soviet Union | URS | Silver | |
3T | Damir Å karo | 28 | Yugoslavia | YUG | Bronze | |
3T | Henryk Petrich | 29 | Poland | POL | Bronze | |
5T | Lajos ErÅs | 24 | Hungary | HUN | ||
5T | Ahmed El-Nagar | 24 | Egypt | EGY | ||
5T | Joseph Akhasamba | 25 | Kenya | KEN | ||
5T | Andrea Magi | 22 | Italy | ITA | ||
9T | Nelson Adams | 21 | Puerto Rico | PUR | ||
9T | Mika Masoe | 24 | American Samoa | ASA | ||
9T | Chris Collins | 28 | Grenada | GRN | ||
9T | Niels Madsen | 24 | Denmark | DEN | ||
9T | Osmond Imadiyi | 25 | Nigeria | NGR | ||
9T | Sione Vaveni Talia'uli | 22 | Tonga | TGA | ||
9T | Brent Kosolofski | 24 | Canada | CAN | ||
9T | Markus Bott | 26 | West Germany | FRG | ||
17T | Terry Dixon | 22 | Jamaica | JAM | ||
17T | Park Byeong-Jin | 22 | South Korea | KOR | ||
17T | Rund Kanika | 25 | Congo (Kinshasa) | COD | ||
17T | Deyan Kirilov | 24 | Bulgaria | BUL | ||
17T | Tommy Bauro | 23 | Solomon Islands | SOL | ||
17T | Jeffrey Nedd | 31 | Aruba | ARU | ||
17T | Pua Ulberg | 24 | Samoa | SAM | ||
17T | Ahmed El-Masri | 27 | Lebanon | LIB | ||
17T | René Suetovius | 24 | East Germany | GDR | ||
17T | Patrick Lihanda | 26 | Uganda | UGA |