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Boxing

Class 
Flyweight (-112 1/2lb)Terence Spinks, GER
 Mircea Dobrescu, ROM
 John Caldwell, IRL
 René Libeer, FRA
Bantamweight (-119 lb)Wolfgang Behrendt, GER
 Soon-Chung Song, KOR
 Frederick Gilroy, IRL
 Claudio Barrientos, CHI
Featherweight (-126 lb)Vladimir Safronov, URS
 Thomas Nicholls, GBR
 Hendryk Niedzwiedzki, POL
 Pentti Hämäläinen, FIN
Lightweight (-132 lb)Richard McTaggert, GBR
 Harry Kurschat, GER
 Anthony Byrne, IRL
 Anatoli Lagetko, URS
Light-Welterweight (-140 lb)Vladimir Yengibaryan, URS
 Franco Nenci, ITA
 Henry Loubscher, SAF
 Constantin Dumitrescu, ROM
Welterweight (-148 lb)Nicolae Lince, ROM
 Frederick Tiedt, IRL
 Kevin John Hogarth, AUS
 Nicholas Gargano, GBR
Light-Middleweight (-157 lb)László Papp, HUN
 José Torres, USA
 John McCormack, GBR
 Zbiegniew Pietrzykowski, POL
Middleweight (-165 lb)Gennadiy Schatkov, URS
 Roman Tapia, CHI
 Gilbert Chapron, FRA
 Victor Zalazar, ARG
Light-Heavyweight (-178 1/2 lb)James Felton Boyd, USA
 Gherorghe Negrea, ROM
 Romualdas Murauskas, URS
 Carlos Lucas, CHI
Heavyweight (+178 1/2 lb)Peter Rademacher, USA
 Lev Mukhin, URS
 Daniel Bekker, SAF
 Giacomo Bozzano, ITA
* Disqualified; reinstated as silver medallist in 1982.

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