Cubans are top boxers again
NZPA-Reuter Belgrade Teofilo Stevenson casually retained his heavy-weight title to complete a tally of five gold medals for Cuba at the world amateur boxing championships in Belgrade on Saturday. , Stevenson, who has now | won two world and two! Olympic titles, stopped | Dragomir Vujkovic (Yugos- ■ lavia) at the start of the | (second round. I So Cuba matched the five I titles it won at the first i world championships in Havana four years ago and reestablished itself as the top amateur boxing nation. i
They lost that distinction at the 1976 Olympics when the United States won five gold medals and Cuba only three. Results of finals:—
Light fly-weight (to 48kg).— Steve Muchoki (Kenya) beat Jorge Hernandez (Cuba) on points. Bronze medallists (losing semi-finalists): Richard Sandoval (United States), Armando Guevara (Venezuela).
Fly-weight (to 51kg).—Henryk Srednicki (Poland) beat Hector Ramirez (Cuba) on points. Bronze medallists: Alexander Mikhailov (Soviet Union), Kouki Ishii (Japan). Bantam-weight (to 54kg).— Adolfo Horta (Cuba) beat Fazlija Sacirovic (Yugoslavia) on points. Bronze medallists: Stefan Foerster (East Germany), Kim
Chung-chul (South Korea). Feather-weight (to 57kg).— Angel Herrera (Cuba) beat Bratislav Ristic (Yugoslavia) on points. Bronze medallists: Roman Gotfryd (Poland), Antonio Esparragoza (Venezuela). Light-weight (to 60kg}.—Davidson Andeh (Nigeria) beat Vladimir Sorokin (Soviet Union) on points. Bronze medallists: Lutz Kaesebier (East Germany), Rene Weller (West Germany). Light welter-weight (to 63.5 kg). —Valerie Lvov (Soviet Union) beat Mehmet Bogujevci (Yugoslavia) on points. Bronze medallists: Karl-Heinz Krueger (East Germany), Jean-Claude Ruiz (France).
Welter-weight (to 67kg).— Valeri Rachkov (Soviet Union> beat Miodrag Perunovic (Yugoslavia) on points. Bronze medallists: Roosevent Green (United States). Ernst Muller (West. Germany i.
Light middle-weight (to 71kg). —Victor Savchenko (Soviet Union) beat Luis Felipe Martinez (Cuba) on points. Bronze medallists: Jerzy Rybicki (Poland), Hia Iliev (Bulgaria). Middle-weight (to 75kg).—Jose Gomez (Cuba) beat Tarmo Uusivirta (Finland: on points. Bronze medallist: Ilian Angelov (Bulgaria;. Slobodan Kacar (Yugoslavia).
Light heavy-weight ito 81kg).— Sixto Soria (Cuba) beat Tadija Kacar (Yugoslavia) on points. Bronze medallists: Herbert Bauch (East Germany;, Nikolai Yerofeyev (Soviet Union).
Heavy-weight (over 81kg>.— Teofilo Stevenson (Cuba) beat Dragomir Vujkovic (Yugoslavia), stopped in second round. Bronze medallists: Carlos Rivera (Venezueiai, Juergen Fanghaenel (East Germany).
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