1979 European Amateur Boxing Championships

The Men's 1979 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Cologne, West Germany from May 5 to May 12, 1979. The 23rd edition of the bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA. There were 146 fighters^[1] from across many European countries participated in the competition.^[2]^[3]

The Heavyweight (– 91 kilograms) and Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kilograms) categories were contested for the first time.^[2]

Medal winners[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light Flyweight (– 48 kilograms)	Shamil Sabirov Soviet Union	Dietmar Geilich East Germany	Hungary Bulgaria
Flyweight (– 51 kilograms)	Henryk Średnicki Poland	Daniel Radu Romania	Soviet Union East Germany
Bantamweight (– 54 kilograms)	Soviet Union	Bulgaria	West Germany Philip Sutcliffe Ireland
Featherweight (– 57 kilograms)	Viktor Rybakov Soviet Union	Chacho Andreykovski Bulgaria	Poland Italy
Lightweight (– 60 kilograms)	Viktor Demyanenko Soviet Union	Rene Weller West Germany	Romania Richard Nowakowski East Germany
Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kilograms)	Serik Konakbayev Soviet Union	Patrizio Oliva Italy	Romania Karl-Heinz Krueger East Germany
Welterweight (– 67 kilograms)	Ernst Müller West Germany	Sreten Mirković Yugoslavia	Romania Kalevi Kosunen Finland
Light Middleweight (– 71 kilograms)	Miodrag Perunović Yugoslavia	Viktor Savchenko Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia West Germany
Middleweight (– 75 kilograms)	Tarmo Uusivirta Finland	Valentin Silaghi Romania	East Germany Hungary
Light Heavyweight (– 81 kilograms)	Soviet Union	Tadija Kačar Yugoslavia	Paweł Skrzecz Poland Romania
Heavyweight (– 91 kilograms)	Soviet Union	East Germany	Sweden Romania
Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kilograms)	Peter Hussing West Germany	Hungary	Jürgen Fanghänel East Germany Soviet Union

Medal table[]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	7	1	2	10
2	West Germany (FRG)	2	1	2	5
3	SFR Yugoslavia	1	2	0	3
4	Poland (POL)	1	0	2	3
5	Finland (FIN)	1	0	1	2
6	East Germany (GDR)	0	2	5	7
7	Romania (ROU)	0	2	4	6
8	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	2	1	3
9	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	2	3
10	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
11	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	1	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 nations)		12	12	23	47

Source: ^[3]

References[]

^ 23rd European championships in Cologne (FRG) 5-12 May 1979
^ ^a ^b "23.European Championships - Cologne, FRG - May 5–12, 1979". Retrieved 2012-01-23.
^ ^a ^b "Boxing". Sports 123. Archived from the original on 2005-08-22. Retrieved 2012-01-23.

[1] 23rd European championships in Cologne (FRG) 5-12 May 1979

[strefa-2] "23.European Championships - Cologne, FRG - May 5–12, 1979". Retrieved 2012-01-23.

[sports123-3] "Boxing". Sports 123. Archived from the original on 2005-08-22. Retrieved 2012-01-23.

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