James Shuler boxeur

James Shuler (May 29, 1959 – March 17, 1986) was a U.S. Olympic and professional boxer from Philadelphia known as "Black Gold."Shuler was trained by Joe Frazier.Shuler was the 1979 and 1980 National Golden Gloves Light Middleweight Champion. He qualified at 156 pounds and was a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic boxing team that perished in an air crash in Warsaw, Poland, on March 14, 1980 . Shuler was not with the team, however, as he had stayed in America due to injury . The team was en route to Warsaw, Poland for the USA vs. Poland Box-off as part of "USA vs. the World." event. Among the USA Boxing teammates who were killed in the plane crash were Lemuel Steeples from St. Louis; Calvin Anderson from Connecticut; Paul Palomino - the brother of Carlos Palomino ; George Pimentel, and Olympic Coach, Sarge Johnson. Members of the team who were also not aboard included Bobby Czyz and Alex Ramos .Shuler did not participate in the 1980 Olympics due to the boycott. In 2007, he posthumously received one of 461 Congressional Gold Medals created especially for the spurned athletes. National Golden Gloves (156 lbs), Indianapolis, Indiana, March 1979:Pan Am Trials (156 lbs), Toledo, Ohio, May–June 1979: