Boxing at the 1908 Summer Olympics Boxing at the 1908 Summer Olympics At the 1908 Summer Olympics, five boxing events were contested. All of the boxing was conducted on 27 October. The event was held in the Northampton Institute in Clerkenwell, East London. There were three rounds in each bout, with the first two rounds being three minutes long and the last one going four minutes. Two judges scored the match, giving 5 points to the better boxer in each of the first two rounds and 7 to the better boxer in the third round. Marks were given to the other boxer in proportion to how
Bolivia at the 1936 Summer Olympics held from 1–16 August 1936 in Berlin, Germany; a total of 3,963 athletes participated, representing 49 countries. The Bolivian delegation consisted of a single competitor, Alberto Conrad. He was the flag bearer for the opening ceremony. Bolivia would not return to Olympic competition until the 1956 Winter Olympics, and their next appearance at a Summer Olympics would come 28 years later, at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Alberto Conrad was 26 years old at the time of the Berlin Olympics, and was making his only Olympic appearance. In the first round of the men's 100 meters freestyle he was drawn into