Muhammad Ali, then know as Cassius Clay, won an Olympic gold medal in Heavyweight Boxing at the 1960 Rome Olympics. He was representing the United States.
Muhammad Ali has an Olympic Gold Medal in Boxing
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Muhammad Ali won one Olympic medal, a gold in light heavyweight boxing at the 1960 Summer Games in Rome.
1960 Games in Rome in light heavyweight class boxing.
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Light heavyweight boxing gold medalist Muhammad Ali, known in 1960 as Cassius Clay.
Muhammad Ali won the gold medal in light heavyweight boxing at the 1960 Summer Games in Rome at the age of 18.
Cassius Clay, who later converted to Muslim and changed his name to Muhammad Ali
Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, seven boxers have won three medals in boxing: 1) László Papp, Hungary - 3 gold 2) Félix Savón, Cuba - 3 gold 3) Teófilo Stevenson, Cuba - 3 gold 4) Boris Lagutin, USSR - 2 gold, 1 bronze 5) Oleg Saitov, Russia - 2 gold, 1 bronze 6) Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, Poland - 1 silver, 2 bronze 7) Arnold Vanderlijde, Netherlands - 3 bronze
muhummad ali (cassius clay)
Olympic Gold in 1960. Three times World Heavyweight Champion - 1964, 1974, and 1978. Inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.
He won a gold medal in the light heavyweight boxing.