Team Canada Best Ever Summer Olympic Results by Event: Boxing

The list below reflects Team Canada’s best ever Olympic result in each boxing event on the Los Angeles 2028 program.

Note: All weight categories were adjusted for Paris 2024, and then some adjusted again for Los Angeles 2028. This makes it difficult to provide historical best-ever results. Over the last few Games, the number of men’s events has been steadily reduced while the number of women’s events has increased, in an effort to achieve gender balance. Where is it possible to provide a result in a reasonably close weight category, that has been done.

GenderEventPlacementGamesAthlete(s)Medal Won
Men55kg (Bantamweight)1Los Angeles 1932Lefty Gwynne (53kg)Gold
60kg (Lightweight)3Antwerp 1920Chris Newton (61kg)Bronze
65kg (Welterweight)1

2
Antwerp 1920

Barcelona 1992
Bert Schneider (66kg)

Mark Leduc (63.5kg)
Gold

Silver
70kg (Light Middleweight)2

3
Los Angeles 1984

Seoul 1988
Shawn O’Sullivan (71kg)

Ray Downey (71kg)
Silver

Bronze
80kg (Light Heavyweight)5

6
Amsterdam 1928

Atlanta 1996
Don Carrick (79kg)

Troy Amos-Ross (81kg)
90kg (Heavyweight)2Los Angeles 1984

Atlanta 1996
Willie deWit (91kg)

David Defiagbon (91kg)
Silver

Silver
+90kg (Super Heavyweight)1Seoul 1988Lennox Lewis (+91kg)Gold
Women51kg (Flyweight)5Rio 2016Mandy Bujold (51kg)
54kg (Bantamweight)XNo Canadian Entries
57kg (Featherweight)5Tokyo 2020Caroline Veyre (57kg)
60kg (Lightweight)XNo Canadian Entries
65kg (Welterweight)XNo Canadian Entries
70kg (Light Middleweight)9Tokyo 2020Myriam Da Silva (69kg)
75kg (Middleweight)5London 2012

Tokyo 2020
Mary Spencer (75kg)

Tammara Thibeault (75kg)