The Acropolis Cup's early editions saw gold medals won by countries including Greece, Pakistan, Morocco, Belgium, the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, and Canada.
1st Acropolis Cup The first Acropolis Cup took place in 1975, with Greece, West Germany, and Austria winning gold medals.
6th Acropolis Cup In 1980, the sixth Acropolis Cup featured a gold medal win in the light-welterweight category for Canadian boxer
Ricky Anderson. Other gold medal winners included fighters from England, Greece, Japan, France, and Denmark.
9th Acropolis Cup At the ninth Acropolis Cup in 1983, England finished as the most successful country out of the 11 participating, winning four gold, one silver, and one bronze.
20th Acropolis Cup In the finals of the 20th annual Acropolis Cup in 1997,
Mirko Crocop faced
Paolo Vidoz and won a silver medal. Female boxers competed for the first time in the 1997 event.
25th Acropolis Cup The Acropolis Cup became an Olympic qualifying tournament in 1999, and its 25th edition served as a test event for the
2004 Summer Olympics. It was held in the
Peristeri Olympic Boxing Hall in
Athens. The 2004 winners included notable Cuban fighters
Yuriolkis Gamboa,
Guillermo Rigondeaux,
Mario Kindelan,
Odlanier Solis, as well as Italy's
Roberto Cammarelle and Greece's
Helias Pavlidis. England's
Amir Khan lost in the preliminary round to Mario Kindelan.
Gennady Golovkin fought in the middleweight class at the Olympic test event and lost in the semi-finals.
Andre Dirrell won a gold medal at the 25th Acropolis Cup by defeating Cuba's
Yordanis Despaigne in the final of the middleweight division.
26th Acropolis Cup In 2022, the 26th annual International Acropolis Cup boxing tournament took place at the
Panathenaic Stadium. Armenia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Germany, Latvia, Luxembourg, North Macedonia, Poland, Seychelles, Slovenia, and Ukraine were among the participating countries. ==References==