Boxing
Canada has enjoyed modest success in Olympic boxing, winning medals in eight games. Lennox Lewis won the super heavyweight gold medal in Seoul, before competing for his native Great Britain as a professional.
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920 Antwerp | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 1924 Paris | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1928 Amsterdam | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1932 Los Angeles | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1984 Los Angeles | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 1988 Seoul | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 1992 Barcelona | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1996 Atlanta | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 3 | 7 | 7 | 17 |
Read more about this topic: Canada At The Summer Olympics
Famous quotes containing the word boxing:
“I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing—for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it’s impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
“... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on.”
—Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)