Torsten May

Torsten May

File:Torsten May (GER) 2019.jpg Torsten May, 2019
Medal record
Representing Germany
Men's Boxing
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place	1992 Barcelona	Light Heavyweight
World Amateur Championships
Gold medal – first place	1991 Sydney	Light Heavyweight

Torsten May (born September 10, 1969, in Glauchau, Saxony) is a former German boxer, who won the Light Heavyweight Gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He challenged once for the IBF cruiserweight championship in 2006.

Amateur career

• 1991 German National Light Heavyweight champion
• 1991 Won World Championship as a Light Heavyweight in Sydney, Australia. Results were:
  • Defeated Patrice Aouissi (France) points
  • Defeated Orestes Solano (Cuba) points
  • Defeated Mehmet Gurgen (Turkey) points
  • Defeated Andrey Kurnyavka (Russia) points
• Olympic Gold Medalist in Barcelona 1992 as a Light Heavyweight. Results were:
  • Defeated Gil-Nam Kim (North Korea) points
  • Defeated Dale Brown (boxer) (Canada) points
  • Defeated Montell Griffin (United States) when controversially he was credited some of Griffin's points
  • Defeated Wojciech Bartnik (Poland) points
  • Defeated Rostislav Zaulitchny (Unified Team/ C.I.S) points

Professional career

May began his professional career the following year and won his first 15 bouts in the cruiserweight division, setting up a fight for the vacant IBF cruiserweight title against Adolpho Washington. Washington won by a narrow unanimous decision, a loss which May avenged in 1999 via a 9th round technical decision after Washington lost his title. May never again fought for a title, and lost via TKO in the 8th round to Alexander Gurov in 2001 in a match that ended May's career.

External links

• Boxing record for Torsten May from BoxRec (registration required)