| Host city | Tampere |
|---|---|
| Country | Finland |
| Nations | 22 |
| Athletes | 171 |
| Dates | 2–10 May |
TheMen's 1981European Amateur Boxing Championships were held inTampere,Finland from May 2 to May 10, 1981. The 24th edition of the bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing,EABA. 171 fighters from 22 European countries participated in the competition.[1]
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light Flyweight (– 48 kilograms) |  Ismail Mustafov |  Dietmar Geilich |  Shamil Sabirov |
| Flyweight (– 51 kilograms) | Petar Lesov |  Constantin Titoiu |  Bogdan Maczuga |
| Bantamweight (– 54 kilograms) | Viktor Miroshnichenko |  Sami Buzoli | Dumitru Cipere |
| Featherweight (– 57 kilograms) | Richard Nowakowski | Krzysztof Kosedowski | Serik Nurkazov |
| Lightweight (– 60 kilograms) | Viktor Rybakov |  Carlo Russolillo |  Vesa Wiik |
| Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kilograms) | Vasiliy Shishov | Mirko Puzović | Nikolay Ganev |
| Welterweight (– 67 kilograms) | Serik Konakbayev | Karl-Heinz Krueger |  Tibor Molnár |
| Light Middleweight (– 71 kilograms) | Alexandr Koshkin | Miodrag Perunović | Mikhail Takov |
| Middleweight (– 75 kilograms) | Yuriy Torbek |  Pedro van Raamsdonk | Zygmunt Gosiewski |
| Light Heavyweight (– 81 kilograms) | Alexandr Krupin |  Giorgica Donici |  Ondrej Pustai |
| Heavyweight (– 91 kilograms) | Alexandr Yagubkin | Juergen Fanghaenel | Ion Cernat |
| Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kilograms) | Francesco Damiani | Vyacheslav Yakovlev | Ulli Kaden |
Host nation (Finland)
| 1981 European Amateur Boxing Championship | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 8 | 1 | 2 | 11 | |
| 2 | Bulgaria | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | |
| 3 | East Germany | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | |
| 4 | Italy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 5 | Yugoslavia | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| 6 | Romania | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| 7 | Poland | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 8 | Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 9 | Hungary | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
| 10 | Finland | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
 West Germany | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 12 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
 Ireland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
 Sweden | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Total | 12 | 12 | 24 | |||