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Boxers who have won 3 or more Olympic medals. Western athletes usually participate in a single Olympic tournament and then turn pro, while boxers from Cuba and other countries with state support of the sport might compete in several Olympics, therefore having a clear advantage in terms of age and experience.
American boxing Olympic medalist stubs (43 P) Pages in category "Olympic boxers for the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 222 total.
Pages in category "Olympic gold medalists for the United States in boxing" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The sport of boxing came to the United States from England in the late 1700s and took root in the 1800s mainly in large urban areas such as Boston, New York City, and New Orleans. [ 26 ] John L. Sullivan became the first American heavyweight champion in 1882 under the bare knuckle boxing rules and again in 1892, becoming the first world ...
USA Boxing, formerly known as the United States Amateur Boxing Federation, has governed amateur and Olympic boxing in the United States since 1978. [5] USA Boxing officially recognized women's boxing in 1993, becoming the first organization to do so in the world with a fight between Dallas Malloy & Heather Poyner in Lynwood, Washington.
For Soto, the Olympics − boxing's biggest international stage – quickly became the dream. She will compete at USA Boxing's Olympic Trials starting on Monday at the Cajundome in Lafayette ...
His USA Olympic boxing coach was Billy Walsh (though his lifelong boxing coach had been his own father, Lewis Hernandez). [ 3 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 14 ] [ 18 ] Ironically, Walsh had previously coached Brendan Irvine , an Irish boxer who, the year before, had defeated Hernandez in the starting round of a world championship fight in Qatar .
Marlen Esparza (born July 29, 1989) is an American professional boxer who is the former WBC, WBO, WBA and Ring female world flyweight champion. As an amateur, in 2012 she became the first American female boxer to qualify for the Olympics, in the first year that women's boxing was an Olympic event, going on to win a bronze medal in the women's flyweight division at the London Olympics.