Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Welterweight

The Welterweight class in the boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics competition was the fifth-heaviest class. Welterweights were limited to those boxers weighing more than 69 kilograms.

Participants

• Adam Trupish (CAN) qualified for the Athens Games as a lucky semifinal loser in the second tournament in Tijuana, Mexico. He took the place of Juan McPherson (USA), a finalist from the 2003 Pan American Games' when his quota was dropped by the USA Boxing Association due to unsuccessful presentation at the USA Olympic trials. The winner of those trials, Vanes Martirosyan (USA), qualified for the Qualifying Tournament in Tijuana.
• Basharmal Sultani of Afghanistan received a wild card from the IOC.
• S Karimi Ahmedabad (IRA) pulled out of the Olympic Tournament before the draw in Athens.

Medalists

Gold	Bakhtiyar Artayev  Kasachstan
Silver	Lorenzo Aragón  Cuba
Bronze	Kim Jung-Joo  Südkorea
	Oleg Saitov  Russland

Zeitplan

Date	Round
Sunday, August 15, 2004	Round of 32
Thursday, August 19, 2004	Round of 16
Saturday, August 22, 2004	Quarterfinals
Friday, August 27, 2004	Semifinals
Sunday, August 29, 2004	Final Bout

Results

	1st Round					2nd Round					Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals
	1
	32
	17
	16
	9
	24
	25
	8
	5
	28
	21
	12
	13
	20
	29
	4
	3
	30
	19
	14
	11
	22
	27
	6
	7
	26
	23
	10
	15
	18
	31
	2

References

• amateur-boxing