List of Val Barker Trophy winners

The Val Barker Trophy is presented every four years to the most "outstanding boxer" at the Olympic Games.

[1] The winner is selected by a committee of International Boxing Association (amateur) (AIBA) officials.

[1] The trophy is named after British boxer Val Barker who won the Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABA) heavyweight title in 1891,[2] before becoming the secretary of the AIBA between 1926 and 1929.

[1] The inaugural recipient of the Val Barker Trophy was American flyweight Louis Laurie who won bronze at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

[3] The inaugural female winner was middleweight Claressa Shields who became the first American boxer to win two consecutive Olympic gold medals when she defeated Dutch boxer Nouchka Fontijn in Rio de Janeiro.

Roy Jones Jr. was controversially denied a gold in 1988 , but was recognized as the most stylistic boxer of the games
Claressa Shields in October 2012
Claressa Shields became the first recipient of the female variant of the trophy, after winning the gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro games in 2016