Boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Boxing at the Games of the XIV Olympiad

Light heavyweight fight featuring Australian boxer Adrian Holmes

Final results for the Boxing competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Medal summary

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (−51 kg)	Pascual Pérez  Argentina	Spartaco Bandinelli  Italy	Han Soo-Ann  South Korea
Bantamweight (−54 kg)	Tibor Csík  Hungary	Gianbattista Zuddas  Italy	Juan Evangelista Venegas  Puerto Rico
Featherweight (−58 kg)	Ernesto Formenti  Italy	Dennis Shepherd  South Africa	Aleksy Antkiewicz  Poland
Lightweight (−62 kg)	Gerald Dreyer  South Africa	Joseph Vissers  Belgium	Svend Wad  Denmark
Welterweight (−67 kg)	Július Torma  Czechoslovakia	Hank Herring  United States	Alessandro D'Ottavio  Italy
Middleweight (−73 kg)	László Papp  Hungary	John Wright  Great Britain	Ivano Fontana  Italy
Light heavyweight (−80 kg)	George Hunter  South Africa	Don Scott  Great Britain	Mauro Cía  Argentina
Heavyweight (+80 kg)	Rafael Iglesias  Argentina	Gunnar Nilsson  Sweden	John Arthur  South Africa

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Africa (RSA)	2	1	1	4
2	Argentina (ARG)	2	0	1	3
3	Hungary (HUN)	2	0	0	2
4	Italy (ITA)	1	2	2	5
5	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	0	1
6	Great Britain (GBR)	0	2	0	2
7	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
10	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Puerto Rico (PUR)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		8	8	8	24

Participating nations

A total of 206 boxers from 39 nations competed at the London Games:

•  Argentina (8)
•  Australia (7)
•  Austria (5)
•  Belgium (8)
•  Brazil (3)
•  Burma (2)
•  Canada (7)
•  Ceylon (4)
•  Chile (5)
•  Czechoslovakia (5)
•  Denmark (6)
•  Egypt (5)
•  Finland (6)
•  France (8)
•  Great Britain (8)
•  Hungary (6)
•  India (7)
•  Iran (8)
•  Ireland (8)
•  Italy (8)
•  Jamaica (1)
•  South Korea (3)
•  Lebanon (1)
•  Luxembourg (4)
•  Mexico (1)
•  Netherlands (6)
•  Norway (4)
•  New Zealand (1)
•  Pakistan (3)
•  Peru (4)
•  Philippines (5)
•  Poland (6)
•  Puerto Rico (3)
•  South Africa (8)
•  Spain (8)
•  Switzerland (4)
•  Sweden (4)
•  Uruguay (8)
•  United States (8)