Olympic Champions
- 1904 – Charles Mayer (USA)
- 1908 – John Douglas (GBR)
- 1920 – Harry Mallin (GBR)
- 1924 – Harry Mallin (GBR)
- 1928 – Piero Toscani (ITA)
- 1932 – Carmen Barth (USA)
- 1936 – Jean Despeaux (FRA)
- 1948 – László Papp (HUN)
- 1952 – Floyd Patterson (USA)
- 1956 – Gennadiy Shatkov (URS)
- 1960 – Eddie Crook, Jr. (USA)
- 1964 – Valeriy Popenchenko (URS)
- 1968 – Chris Finnegan (GBR)
- 1972 – Vyacheslav Lemeshev (URS)
- 1976 – Michael Spinks (USA)
- 1980 – José Gómez (CUB)
- 1984 – Shin Joon-Sup (KOR)
- 1988 – Henry Maske (GDR)
- 1992 – Ariel Hernández (CUB)
- 1996 – Ariel Hernández (CUB)
- 2000 – Jorge Gutiérrez (CUB)
- 2004 – Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov (RUS)
- 2008 – James DeGale (GBR)
- 2012 – Ryota Murata (JPN)
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