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List of Val Barker Trophy winners

Award

Field	Value
name	Val Barker Trophy
awarded_for	demonstration of excellence in Olympic boxing
presenter	AIBA
year	1936
holder	Claressa Shields
Hasanboy Dusmatov

Hasanboy Dusmatov The Val Barker Trophy is presented every four years to the most "outstanding boxer" at the Olympic Games. before becoming the secretary of the AIBA between 1926 and 1929.

The inaugural recipient of the Val Barker Trophy was American flyweight Louis Laurie who won bronze at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. He is one of just three boxers who did not win gold at the same Olympics in which they were presented with the trophy, the others being Kenyan featherweight Philip Waruinge (bronze at the 1968 Games) and American light middleweight Roy Jones Jr. (silver at the 1988 Games). In the 2016 Games, two Val Barker Trophies were presented for the first time, one for men and one for women; The inaugural female winner was middleweight Claressa Shields who became the first American boxer to win two consecutive Olympic gold medals when she defeated Dutch boxer Nouchka Fontijn in Rio de Janeiro.

American boxers lead with six trophies, followed by Kazakhstani boxers with three awards and Russian boxers with two awards (one for the Soviet Union and one for Russia).

Recipients

Games	Location	Boxer	Nationality	Medal	Ref(s)	1936	1948	1952	1956	1960
Berlin		USA	Flyweight
London		RSA	Light heavyweight
Helsinki		USA	Light heavyweight
Melbourne		GBR	Lightweight
Rome		ITA	Welterweight
Tokyo		URS	Middleweight
Mexico City		KEN	Featherweight
Munich		CUB	Heavyweight
Montreal		USA	Lightweight	url = http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1975273-the-best-fighters-in-boxing-history-who-were-also-olympic-medalists	publisher = Bleacher Report	title = The Best Fighters in Boxing History Who Were Also Olympic Medalists	first = Briggs	last=Seekins	date = 28 February 2014	access-date = 27 July 2017}}
Moscow		ITA	Light welterweight
Los Angeles		USA	Light flyweight
Seoul		USA	Light middleweight
Barcelona		CUB	Super heavyweight
Atlanta		KAZ	Light heavyweight
Sydney		RUS	Welterweight
Athens		KAZ	Welterweight
Beijing		UKR	Featherweight
London		KAZ	Welterweight
Rio de Janeiro		UZB	Men's light flyweight
	USA	Women's middleweight
Tokyo
Paris

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"Valery Popenchenko". [[Sports Reference]].
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"Mr. Serik Konakbayev arrived to the AIBA EC Meeting to the place of his previous successes to Moscow". [[Asian Boxing Confederation]].
Smith, Charles. (22 August 1993). "Gonzales: Will He Be Sitting Pretty Again? : After Personal and Professional Setbacks, '84 Olympic Champ Is Ready to Return to the Ring". [[Los Angeles Times]].
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Fischer, Doug. "10: Top Olympic fighters of all time". [[The Ring (magazine).
(29 August 2004). "Artayev wins Athens award". [[BBC Sport]].
(24 August 2008). "Lomachenko wins Val Barker trophy". [[Reuters]].
(13 August 2016). "London 2012 gold medalist Serik Sapiyev returns to Rio 2016 Olympic Boxing arena in a new role for Kazakhstan". [[International Boxing Association (amateur).
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(14 August 2021). "Val Barker Trophy will not be awarded for Tokyo 2020 due to AIBA suspension".

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