Torsten May

Torsten May 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 points
*Defeated Orestes Solano points
*Defeated Mehmet Gurgen points
*Defeated Andrey Kurnyavka points
Olympic Gold Medalist in Barcelona 1992 as a Light Heavyweight. Results were:
*Defeated Gil-Nam Kim points
*Defeated Dale Brown (boxer) points
*Defeated Montell Griffin when controversially he was credited some of Griffin's points
*Defeated Wojciech Bartnik points
*Defeated Rostislav Zaulitchny points

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.