1978 World Boxing Championships

Host City	Belgrad
Country	YUG
Held	6 – 20 May 1978
Competitors	44
Countries	15

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Cuba	CUB	5	3	0	8
2	Soviet Union	URS	3	1	2	6
3	Poland	POL	1	0	2	3
4	Kenya	KEN	1	0	0	1
=	Nigeria	NGR	1	0	0	1
6	Yugoslavia	YUG	0	6	1	7
7	Finland	FIN	0	1	0	1
8	East Germany	GDR	0	0	5	5
9	Venezuela	VEN	0	0	3	3
10	Bulgaria	BUL	0	0	2	2
=	United States	USA	0	0	2	2
=	West Germany	FRG	0	0	2	2
13	France	FRA	0	0	1	1
=	Japan	JPN	0	0	1	1
=	South Korea	KOR	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
-48 kg, Men	Steve Mushioki	KEN	Jorge Hernández	CUB	Armando Guevara Richard Sandoval	VEN USA
-51 kg, Men	Henryk Średnicki	POL	Héctor Ramírez	CUB	Aleksandr Mikhaylov Koki Ishi	URS JPN
-54 kg, Men	Adolfo Horta	CUB	Fazlija Šaćirović	YUG	Stefan Förster Chung Kim-Chil	GDR KOR
-57 kg, Men	Ángel Herrera	CUB	Bratislav Ristić	YUG	Roman Gotfryd Antonio Esparragoza	POL VEN
-60 kg, Men	Andeh Davidson	NGR	Vladimir Sorokin	URS	René Weller Lutz Käsebier	FRG GDR
-63.5 kg, Men	Valery Lvov	URS	Mehmet Bogujevci	YUG	Jean-Claude Ruiz Karl-Heinz Krüger	FRA GDR
-67 kg, Men	Valery Rachkov	URS	Miodrag Perunović	YUG	Roosevelt Green Ernst Müller	USA FRG
-71 kg, Men	Viktor Savchenko	URS	Luis Martínez	CUB	Jerzy Rybicki Ilya Ilyev	POL BUL
-75 kg, Men	José Gómez	CUB	Tarmo Uusivirta	FIN	Slobodan Kačar Ilya Angelov	YUG BUL
+81 kg, Men	Teófilo Stevenson	CUB	Dragan Vujković	YUG	Carlos Rivera Jürgen Fanghänel	VEN GDR
-81 kg, Men	Sixto Soria	CUB	Tadija Kačar	YUG	Nikolay Yerofeyev Herbert Bauch	URS GDR