Wolfgang Behrendt

Wolfgang Behrendt (July 14, 1936 in Berlin) was a bantamweight amateur boxer from East Germany, who competed for the United Team of Germany at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

[edit] Amateur Career

He won the gold medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics and became the first Olympic champion for East Germany.

Record: 188 Wins - 8 Losses - 5 Draws

1955 East German Bantamweight Champion, 3rd place (Flyweight) at European Championships in Berlin.
1956 Gold Medalist (Bantamweight) in a unified German team at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne. Results were:
- Defeated Henrik Ottesen (Denmark) KO-2
- Defeated Owen Reilly (Great Britain) PTS
- Defeated Freddie Gilroy (Ireland) PTS
- Defeated Soon-Chun Song (South Korea) PTS
1957 East German Bantamweight Champion
1960 East German Featherweight Champion

v • d • e Olympic Champions in Boxing Bantamweight

1904: 105-115 lb (47.6-52.2 kg), 1908: - 116 lb (52.6 kg), 1920-1928: 112-118 lb (50.8-53.5 kg), 1932+1936: 112-119 lb (50.8-54.0 kg), 1948-2004: 51-54 kg

1904: Oliver Kirk • 1908: Henry Thomas • 1920: Clarence Walker • 1924: William H. Smith • 1928: Vittorio Tamagnini • 1932: Horace Gwynne • 1936: Ulderico Sergo • 1948: Tibor Csík • 1952: Pentti Hämäläinen • 1956: Wolfgang Behrendt • 1960: Oleg Grigoryev • 1964: Takao Sakurai • 1968: Valerian Sokolov • 1972: Orlando Martínez • 1976: Gu Yong-Ju • 1980: Juan Hernández • 1984: Maurizio Stecca • 1988: Kennedy McKinney • 1992: Joel Casamayor • 1996: István Kovács • 2000+2004: Guillermo Ortiz