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Boxing at the 1979 Pan American Games
Boxing at the 1979 Pan American Games
	Boxing pictogram for the games
Venue	Trujillo Alto Coliseum, Roberto Clemente Coliseum
Dates	July 2–14, 1979
Competitors	114 from 19 nations
	«1975 1983»

Boxing competitions at the 1979 Pan American Games in San Juan were held from July 2 to 14 at the Trujillo Alto Coliseum and the Roberto Clemente Coliseum.^[1]

Competition schedule

The following was the schedule for the boxing competitions:^[2]

P	Preliminaries	¼	Quarterfinals	½	Semifinals	F	Final

Event↓/Date →	Mon 2	Tue 3	Wed 4	Thu 5	Fri 6	Sat 7	Sun 8	Mon 9	Tue 10	Wed 11	Thu 12	Sat 14
Men's light flyweight				P			¼			½		F
Men's flyweight			P			¼				½		F
Men's bantamweight					P				¼		½	F
Men's featherweight	P				¼					½		F
Men's lightweight				P			¼			½		F
Men's light welterweight		P						¼			½	F
Men's welterweight			P					¼		½		F
Men's light middleweight						¼					½	F
Men's middleweight									¼		½	F
Men's light heavyweight											½	F
Men's heavyweight											½	F

Medal table

* Host nation (Puerto Rico)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba	5	0	2	7
2	United States	4	2	2	8
3	Puerto Rico*	2	4	1	7
4	Dominican Republic	0	1	4	5
5	Argentina	0	1	2	3
5	Venezuela	0	1	2	3
7	Brazil	0	1	1	2
8	Jamaica	0	1	0	1
9	Canada	0	0	2	2
9	Mexico	0	0	2	2
11	Chile	0	0	1	1
	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Ecuador	0	0	1	1
	Guyana	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		11	11	22	44

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light flyweight details	Héctor Ramírez Cuba	Richard Sandoval United States	Eduardo Burgos Chile
Light flyweight details	Héctor Ramírez Cuba	Richard Sandoval United States	Gilberto Sosa Mexico
Flyweight details	Alberto Mercado Puerto Rico	Pedro Nolasco Dominican Republic	Ian Clyde Canada
Flyweight details	Alberto Mercado Puerto Rico	Pedro Nolasco Dominican Republic	Jerome Coffee United States
Bantamweight details	Jackie Beard United States	Luis Pizarro Puerto Rico	Héctor Lazaro Cuba
Bantamweight details	Jackie Beard United States	Luis Pizarro Puerto Rico	Santiago Caballero Venezuela
Featherweight details	Bernard Taylor United States	Naudy Piñero Venezuela	Fernando Sosa Argentina
Featherweight details	Bernard Taylor United States	Naudy Piñero Venezuela	Felipe Orozco Colombia
Lightweight details	Adolfo Horta Cuba	Roberto Andino Puerto Rico	Rafael Rodriguez Dominican Republic
Lightweight details	Adolfo Horta Cuba	Roberto Andino Puerto Rico	Guillermo Fernández Venezuela
Light welterweight details	Lemuel Steeples United States	Hugo Hernández Argentina	José Aguilar Cuba
Light welterweight details	Lemuel Steeples United States	Hugo Hernández Argentina	Pedro Cruz Puerto Rico
Welterweight details	Andrés Aldama Cuba	Mike McCallum Jamaica	José Baret Dominican Republic
Welterweight details	Andrés Aldama Cuba	Mike McCallum Jamaica	Javier Colin Mexico
Light middleweight details	José Angel Molina Puerto Rico	James Shuler United States	Francisco de Jesus Brazil
Light middleweight details	José Angel Molina Puerto Rico	James Shuler United States	Jorge Amparo Dominican Republic
Middleweight details	José Gómez Mustelier Cuba	Carlos Fonseca Brazil	Alfred Thomas Guyana
Middleweight details	José Gómez Mustelier Cuba	Carlos Fonseca Brazil	Oscar Florentín Argentina
Light heavyweight details	Tony Tucker United States	Dennis Jackson Puerto Rico	Patrick Fennel Canada
Light heavyweight details	Tony Tucker United States	Dennis Jackson Puerto Rico	Clemente Ortiz Dominican Republic
Heavyweight details	Teófilo Stevenson Cuba	Narciso Maldonado Puerto Rico	Rufus Hadley United States
Heavyweight details	Teófilo Stevenson Cuba	Narciso Maldonado Puerto Rico	Luis Castillo Ecuador

Participating nations

A total of 24 countries have qualified athletes.^[3]

Argentina (6 athletes)
Barbados (2)
Bahamas (4)
Belize (3)
Brazil (10)
Canada (8)
Chile (5)
Colombia (5)
Cuba (11)
Dominican Republic (9)
Ecuador (4)
El Salvador (4)
Guyana (5)
Jamaica (2)
Mexico (7)
Puerto Rico (11)
United States (11)
Venezuela (5)
Virgin Islands (2)

References

^ Memoria VIII Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos San Juan, Puerto Rico 1979 (PDF) (in Spanish). 1979 Pan American Games Organising Committee (COPAN 79). 1981. pp. 198, 204, 231. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-11. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
^ Memoria VIII Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos San Juan, Puerto Rico 1979 (PDF) (in Spanish). 1979 Pan American Games Organising Committee (COPAN 79). 1981. p. 293. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-11. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
^ Memoria VIII Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos San Juan, Puerto Rico 1979 (PDF) (in Spanish). 1979 Pan American Games Organising Committee (COPAN 79). 1981. pp. 290–291. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-11. Retrieved 2019-08-20.