1978 World Amateur Boxing Championships

The Men's 1978 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from May 6 to 20. The second edition of this competition, held two years before the Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union was organised by the world governing body for amateur boxing AIBA.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba	5	3	0	8
2	Soviet Union	3	1	2	6
3	Poland	1	0	2	3
4	Kenya	1	0	0	1
4	Nigeria	1	0	0	1
6	Yugoslavia	0	6	1	7
7	Finland	0	1	0	1
8	East Germany	0	0	5	5
9	Venezuela	0	0	3	3
10	Bulgaria	0	0	2	2
	United States	0	0	2	2
	West Germany	0	0	2	2
13	France	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light Flyweight (– 48 kilograms)	Stephen Muchoki Kenya	Jorge Hernández Cuba	Armando Guevara Venezuela Richard Sandoval United States
Flyweight (– 51 kilograms)	Henryk Średnicki Poland	Héctor Ramírez Cuba	Alexander Mikhailov Soviet Union Ishi Koki Japan
Bantamweight (– 54 kilograms)	Adolfo Horta Cuba	Fazlija Szacirović Yugoslavia	Stephan Förster East Germany Chung Kim Chil South Korea
Featherweight (– 57 kilograms)	Ángel Herrera Cuba	Bratislav Ristić Yugoslavia	Roman Gotfryd Poland Antonio Esparragoza Venezuela
Lightweight (– 60 kilograms)	Andeh Davidson Nigeria	Vladimir Sorokin Soviet Union	René Weller West Germany Lutz Käsebier East Germany
Light Welterweight (– 63,5 kilograms)	Valery Lvov Soviet Union	Memet Bogujevci Yugoslavia	Jean-Claude Ruiz France Karl-Heinz Krüger East Germany
Welterweight (– 67 kilograms)	Valery Rachkov Soviet Union	Miodrag Perunović Yugoslavia	Roosevelt Green United States Ernst Müller West Germany
Light Middleweight (– 71 kilograms)	Viktor Savchenko Soviet Union	Luis Martínez Cuba	Jerzy Rybicki Poland Ilya Ilyev Bulgaria
Middleweight (– 75 kilograms)	José Gómez Cuba	Tarmo Uusivirta Finland	Slobodan Kačar Yugoslavia Ilya Angelov Bulgaria
Light Heavyweight (– 81 kilograms)	Sixto Soria Cuba	Tadija Kačar Yugoslavia	Nikolay Erofyeev Soviet Union Herbert Bauch East Germany
Heavyweight (> 81 kilograms)	Teófilo Stevenson Cuba	Dragomir Vujković Yugoslavia	Carlos Rivera Venezuela Jürgen Fanghänel East Germany

External links

Results on Amateur Boxing

World Amateur Boxing Championships

Men's	Havana 1974 Belgrade 1978 Munich 1982 Reno 1986 Moscow 1989 Sydney 1991 Tampere 1993 Berlin 1995 Budapest 1997 Houston 1999 Belfast 2001 Bangkok 2003 Mianyang 2005 Chicago 2007 Milan 2009 Baku 2011 Almaty 2013 Doha 2015 Hamburg 2017

Women's	Scranton 2001 Antalya 2002 Podolsk 2005 New Delhi 2006 Ningbo 2008 Bridgetown 2010 Qinhuangdao 2012 Jeju City 2014 Astana 2016

Youth (U-18)	Guadalajara 2008 Baku 2010 Yerevan 2012 Sofia 2014 Saint Petersburg 2016

Women’s Youth	Antalya 2011 Albena 2013 Taipei 2015

List of medalists

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