Torsten May

Torsten May

Torsten May, 2019
Medal record
Representing Germany
Men's Boxing
Olympic Games
	1992 Barcelona	Light Heavyweight
World Amateur Championships
	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)