1981 European Amateur Boxing Championships
# 1981 European Amateur Boxing Championships

The Men's 1981 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Tampere, Finland from May 2 to May 10, 1981. The 24th edition of the bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA. 171 fighters from 22 European countries participated in the competition.

## Medal winners

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Light Flyweight (– 48 kilograms) | Ismail Mustafov | Dietmar Geilich | Shamil Sabirov Gerard Hawkins |
| Flyweight (– 51 kilograms) | Petar Lesov | Constantin Titoiu | Bogdan Maczuga Jarmo Eskelinen |
| Bantamweight (– 54 kilograms) | Viktor Miroshnichenko | Sami Buzoli | Dumitru Cipere Stefan Gertel |
| Featherweight (– 57 kilograms) | Richard Nowakowski | Krzysztof Kosedowski | Serik Nurkazov Róbert Gönczi |
| Lightweight (– 60 kilograms) | Viktor Rybakov | Carlo Russollilo | Vesa Wiik Frederic Geoffroy |
| Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kilograms) | Vasiliy Shishov | Mirko Puzović | Nikolay Ganev Dietmar Schwarz |
| Welterweight (– 67 kilograms) | Serik Konakbayev | Karl-Heinz Krueger | Tibor Molnár Vesa Koskela |
| Light Middleweight (– 71 kilograms) | Alexandr Koshkin | Miodrag Perunović | Mikhail Takov Imre Némedi |
| Middleweight (– 75 kilograms) | Yuriy Torbek | Pedro van Raamsdonk | Zygmunt Gosiewski Valentin Silaghi |
| Light Heavyweight (– 81 kilograms) | Alexandr Krupin | Giorgica Donici | Ondrej Pustai Kurt Seiler |
| Heavyweight (– 91 kilograms) | Alexandr Yagubkin | Juergen Fanghaenel | Ion Cernat Vasil Bosakov |
| Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kilograms) | Francesco Damiani | Vyacheslav Yakovlev | Ulli Kaden Azis Salihu |

## Medal count table

Host nation (Finland)

1981 European Amateur Boxing Championship :

| Pos | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 8 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
| 2 | Bulgaria | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | East Germany | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | Italy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Yugoslavia | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | Romania | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 7 | Poland | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 8 | Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Hungary | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 10 | Finland | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | West Germany | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Ireland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Sweden | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| | Total | 12 | 12 | 24 | |
