title: 1981 European Amateur Boxing Championships
text: # 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 | |
  