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| Born | April 20, 1884 Beatrice, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | March 14, 1960 (age 75) St. Louis, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||
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Oliver Leonard Kirk (April 20, 1884 – March 14, 1960) was an American bantamweight and featherweight professional boxer who won two gold medalsinBoxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was born in Beatrice, Nebraska and died in St. Louis, Missouri.[1]
Kirk is the only boxerinOlympic history to ever win two gold medals in two separate weight divisions at the same Olympics.[2] He won gold in the featherweight and lost almost 10 pounds in under two weeks and also won gold in the bantamweight category. Kirk only had to win two fights to capture his two gold medals, in the bantamweight class only two boxers competed. In the featherweight class there were three boxers with Kirk earning the bye in the first round.
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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), 1948–2008: 51–54 kg, 2012: 52–56 kg, 2016: 53–56 kg | |
 Henry Thomas (GBR) Clarence Walker (RSA) William Smith (RSA) Vittorio Tamagnini (ITA) Horace Gwynne (CAN) Ulderico Sergo (ITA) Tibor Csík (HUN) Pentti Hämäläinen (FIN) Wolfgang Behrendt (EUA) Oleg Grigoryev (URS) Takao Sakurai (JPN) Valerian Sokolov (URS) Orlando Martínez (CUB) Gu Yong-ju (PRK) Juan Hernández (CUB) Maurizio Stecca (ITA) Kennedy McKinney (USA) Joel Casamayor (CUB) István Kovács (HUN) Guillermo Rigondeaux (CUB) Guillermo Rigondeaux (CUB) Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan (MGL) Luke Campbell (GBR) Robeisy Ramírez (CUB) |
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1904: 115–125 lb (52.2–56.7 kg) · 1908: 116–126 lb (52.6–57.2 kg) · 1920–1928: 118–126 lb (53.5–57.2 kg) · 1932–1936: 119–126 lb (54.0–57.2 kg) · 1948: 54–58 kg · 1952–2008: 54–57kg · 2020–: 53–57 kg | |
Richard Gunn (GBR) Paul Fritsch (FRA) Jackie Fields (USA) Bep van Klaveren (NED) Carmelo Robledo (ARG) Oscar Casanovas (ARG) Ernesto Formenti (ITA) Ján Zachara (TCH) Vladimir Safronov (URS) Francesco Musso (ITA) Stanislav Stepashkin (URS) Antonio Roldán (MEX) Boris Kuznetsov (URS) Ángel Herrera (CUB) Rudi Fink (GDR) Meldrick Taylor (USA) Giovanni Parisi (ITA) Andreas Tews (GER) Somluck Kamsing (THA) Bekzat Sattarkhanov (KAZ) Aleksei Tishchenko (RUS) Vasiliy Lomachenko (UKR) Albert Batyrgaziev (ROC) |
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