Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics

At the 1904 Summer Olympics, seven boxing events were contested. The competitions were held on Wednesday, September 21, 1904 and on Thursday, September 22, 1904. Contestants in lighter weight classes could also compete in heavier classes. Oliver Kirk, winning the bantamweight and featherweight categories, thus became the only boxer to have won two gold medals in the same Olympics. George Finnegan, Harry Spanjer and Charles Mayer won one gold and one silver medal.[1][2][3]

There was also a demonstration bout of women's boxing.[4]

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (47.6 kg / 105 lb)	George Finnegan United States	Miles Burke United States	None awarded
Bantamweight (52.2 kg / 115 lb)	Oliver Kirk United States	George Finnegan United States	None awarded
Featherweight (56.7 kg / 125 lb)	Oliver Kirk United States	Frank Haller United States	Frederick Gilmore United States
Lightweight (61.2 kg / 135 lb)	Harry Spanjer United States	Jack Egan (Russell van Horn) United States[5]	Russell van Horn (Peter Sturholdt) United States[5]
Welterweight (65.8 kg / 145 lb)	Albert Young United States	Harry Spanjer United States	Jack Egan United States[5] Joseph Lydon United States[5]
Middleweight (71.7 kg / 158 lb)	Charles Mayer United States	Benjamin Spradley United States	None awarded
Heavyweight (over 71.7 kg/over 158 lb)	Samuel Berger United States	Charles Mayer United States	William Michaels United States

Participating nations

A total of 18 boxers competed at the St. Louis Games:

United States (18)

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	7	7	5	19
Totals (1 nations)		7	7	5	19

References

"Boxing at the 1904 St. Louis Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
"6124 6577kg Welterweight Men". Olympic.org.
"567 6124kg Lightweight Men". Olympic.org.
Jack Egan originally won the silver medal in the lightweight competition and the bronze medal in the welterweight competition. Later it was discovered that his real name was Frank Joseph Floyd while the AAU rules made it illegal to fight under an assumed name. In November 1905 the AAU disqualified Egan from all AAU competitions and he had to return all his prizes. In the lightweight competition Russell van Horn moved up to silver. However according to IOC's medal database for 1904 Olympics Jack Egan has silver medal in Boxing lightweight and bronze medal in Boxing welterweight, Russell van Horn has bronze in the lightweight competition and Joseph Lydon keeps bronze in the welterweight competition.

International Olympic Committee medal database

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[SR-1] "Boxing at the 1904 St. Louis Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2018.

[2] "6124 6577kg Welterweight Men". Olympic.org.

[3] "567 6124kg Lightweight Men". Olympic.org.

[JackEgan-5] Jack Egan originally won the silver medal in the lightweight competition and the bronze medal in the welterweight competition. Later it was discovered that his real name was Frank Joseph Floyd while the AAU rules made it illegal to fight under an assumed name. In November 1905 the AAU disqualified Egan from all AAU competitions and he had to return all his prizes. In the lightweight competition Russell van Horn moved up to silver. However according to IOC's medal database for 1904 Olympics Jack Egan has silver medal in Boxing lightweight and bronze medal in Boxing welterweight, Russell van Horn has bronze in the lightweight competition and Joseph Lydon keeps bronze in the welterweight competition.