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Olympic medal record Men's boxing Gold 1904 St. Louis Middleweight Silver 1904 St. Louis Heavyweight Charles Mayer was an American middleweight and heavyweight boxer who competed in the early twentieth century.
He won two medals in boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics, one of only five boxers in Olympic history to ever do so. In the middleweight category he defeated fellow American Benjamin Spradley in the final to win a gold medal but took silver in the heavier heavyweight category. Mayer only had to compete in two fights to capture his two medals medals, in the middleweight class only two boxers participated. In the heavyweight class there were three boxers with Mayer earning the bye in the first round.
Mayer was the National Amateur Middleweight Champion in 1905.
Olympic results
Middleweight
- Defeated Benjamin Spradley (United States) TKO 3
Heavyweight
- 1st round bye
- Lost to Sam Berger points
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Olympic Boxing Champions in Men's Middleweight 1904: 145-158 lb (65.8-71.7 kg), 1908: 140-158 lb (63.5-71.7 kg), 1920-1936: 147-160 lb (66.7-72.6 kg), 1948: 67-73 kg 1952-2000: 71-75 kg, 2004-2008: 69-75 kg 1904: Charles Mayer (USA) • 1908: Johnny Douglas (GBR) • 1920–1924: 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: Valeri 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) • 1992–1996: Ariel Hernández (CUB) • 2000: Jorge Gutiérrez (CUB) • 2004: Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov (RUS) • 2008: James DeGale (GBR)
Categories:- American boxers
- Middleweight boxers
- Heavyweight boxers
- Olympic boxers of the United States
- Boxers at the 1904 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- American boxing Olympic medalist stubs
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