1978 World Amateur Boxing Championships

The Men's 1978 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from May 6 to 20. The second edition of this competition, held two years before the Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union was organised by the world governing body for amateur boxing AIBA.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	5	3	0	8
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	1	2	6
3	Poland (POL)	1	0	2	3
4	Kenya (KEN)	1	0	0	1
	Nigeria (NGR)	1	0	0	1
6	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	6	1	7
7	Finland (FIN)	0	1	0	1
8	East Germany (GDR)	0	0	5	5
9	Venezuela (VEN)	0	0	3	3
10	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	2	2
	United States (USA)	0	0	2	2
	West Germany (FRG)	0	0	2	2
13	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		11	11	22	44

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light Flyweight (– 48 kilograms)	Stephen Muchoki Kenya	Jorge Hernández Cuba	Armando Guevara Venezuela Richard Sandoval United States
Flyweight (– 51 kilograms)	Henryk Średnicki Poland	Héctor Ramírez Cuba	Alexander Mikhailov Soviet Union Ishi Koki Japan
Bantamweight (– 54 kilograms)	Adolfo Horta Cuba	Fazlija Šaćirović Yugoslavia	Stephan Förster East Germany Chung Kim Chil South Korea
Featherweight (– 57 kilograms)	Ángel Herrera Cuba	Bratislav Ristić Yugoslavia	Roman Gotfryd Poland Antonio Esparragoza Venezuela
Lightweight (– 60 kilograms)	Davidson Andeh Nigeria	Vladimir Sorokin Soviet Union	René Weller West Germany Lutz Käsebier East Germany
Light Welterweight (– 63,5 kilograms)	Valery Lvov Soviet Union	Memet Bogujevci Yugoslavia	Jean-Claude Ruiz France Karl-Heinz Krüger East Germany
Welterweight (– 67 kilograms)	Valery Rachkov Soviet Union	Miodrag Perunović Yugoslavia	Roosevelt Green United States Ernst Müller West Germany
Light Middleweight (– 71 kilograms)	Viktor Savchenko Soviet Union	Luis Martínez Cuba	Jerzy Rybicki Poland Ilya Ilyev Bulgaria
Middleweight (– 75 kilograms)	José Gómez Mustelier Cuba	Tarmo Uusivirta Finland	Slobodan Kačar Yugoslavia Ilya Angelov Bulgaria
Light Heavyweight (– 81 kilograms)	Sixto Soria Cuba	Tadija Kačar Yugoslavia	Nikolay Erofyeev Soviet Union Herbert Bauch East Germany
Heavyweight (> 81 kilograms)	Teófilo Stevenson Cuba	Dragomir Vujković Yugoslavia	Carlos Rivera Venezuela Jürgen Fanghänel East Germany

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