Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Welterweight

Men's welterweight boxing at the Games of the III Olympiad
Venue	Physical Culture Gymnasium (Washington University in St. Louis)
Dates	September 21 (semifinals) September 22 (final)
Competitors	4 from 1 nation
Medalists
Albert Young   United States   Harry Spanjer   United States   Jack Egan, Joseph Lydon   United States

Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics
Flyweight		men
Bantamweight		men
Featherweight		men
Lightweight		men
Welterweight		men
Middleweight		men
Heavyweight		men

The welterweight was the third heaviest boxing weight class held as part of the Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was held on Wednesday, September 21, 1904 and on Thursday, September 22, 1904. It was the first time the event, like all other boxing events, was held in Olympic competition.

Welterweights had to be less than 65.8 kilograms. Four boxers all from the United States competed.

Results

	Semifinals September 21					Final September 22
	1	Albert Young (USA)	W
	4	Jack Egan (USA)	L
						Albert Young (USA)		W
						Harry Spanjer (USA)		L
	3	Harry Spanjer (USA)	W
	2	Joseph Lydon (USA)	L

Since there was no bronze medal match, Egan and Lydon were both awarded bronze medals.

Jack Egan originally won the silver medal in the lightweight competition and the bronze medal in the welterweight competition. Later it was discovered that his real name was Frank Joseph Floyd while the AAU rules made it illegal to fight under an assumed name. In November 1905 the AAU disqualified Egan from all AAU competitions and he had to return all his prizes. In the lightweight competition Russell van Horn moved up to silver and Peter Sturholdt to bronze (Sturholdt won the bronze medal without winning a single bout). In the welterweight competition Joseph Lydon moved up to bronze. However according to IOC's medal database for 1904 Olympics Jack Egan has silver medal in Boxing lightweight and bronze medal in Boxing welterweight, Russell van Horn has bronze in the lightweight competition and Joseph Lydon keeps bronze in the welterweight competition.

Sources

• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 14 December 2006. 
• In November 1905 the AAU disqualified Egan
• IOC's medal database for 1904 Olympics