Oliver Kirk
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| Olympic medal record | |||
| Men's Boxing | |||
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| Gold | 1904 St. Louis | Bantamweight | |
| Gold | 1904 St. Louis | Featherweight | |
Oliver L. Kirk (20 March 1884-?) was an American bantamweight and featherweight professional boxer who won two gold medals in Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics. He is the only boxer in Olympic history to ever win two gold medals in two separate weight divisions. He won gold in the featherweight and lost almost 10 pounds in under two weeks and also won gold in the bantamweight category.
| Olympic Boxing Champions (Bantamweight) |
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| 1904: Oliver Kirk (USA) • 1908: Henry Thomas (GBR) • 1920: Clarence Walker (RSA) • 1924: William Smith (RSA) • 1928: Vittorio Tamagnini (ITA) • 1932: Horace Gwynne (CAN) • 1936: Ulderico Sergo (ITA) • 1948: Tibor Csík (HUN) • 1952: Pentti Hämäläinen (FIN) • 1956: Wolfgang Behrendt (GER) • 1960: Oleg Grigoryev (URS) • 1964: Takao Sakurai (JPN) • 1968: Valerian Sokolov (URS) • 1972: Orlando Martínez (CUB) • 1976: Gu Yong-Ju (PRK) • 1980: Juan Hernández (CUB) • 1984: Maurizio Stecca (ITA) • 1988: Kennedy McKinney (USA) • 1992: Joel Casamayor (CUB) • 1996: István Kovács (HUN) • 2000: Guillermo Rigondeaux (CUB) • 2004: Guillermo Rigondeaux (CUB) |
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