Boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Flyweight explained

Games:1948 Summer
Event:Men's Flyweight
Competitors:26
Nations:26
Dates:August 7–12
Gold:Pascual Pérez
Goldnoc:ARG
Silver:Spartaco Bandinelli
Silvernoc:ITA
Bronze:Han Soo-ann
Bronzenoc:KOR
Prev:1936
Next:1952

The men's flyweight event was part of the boxing programme at the 1948 Summer Olympics. The weight class was the lightest contested, and allowed boxers of up to 51 kilograms. The competition was held from Saturday, 7 August 1948 to Friday, 13 August 1948. Twenty-six boxers from 26 nations competed.[1]

Prior to the competition beginning, eventual gold medallist Pascual Perez was disqualified for being overweight. It was quickly discovered that officials had confused Perez with his bantamweight teammate Arnoldo Pares, and he was reinstated back into the competition.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Boxing at the 1948 London Summer Games: Men's Flyweight . https://web.archive.org/web/20200428165353/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1948/BOX/ . dead . 28 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 9 November 2018.
  2. Book: Wallechinsky . David . The Complete Book of the Olympics . 1984 . Penguin Books . England . 0140066322 . 166 .