European Boxing Championships 1955

The 11th men's European boxing championships for amateurs were held from May 27 to June 5, 1955 in West Berlin . These were the second European championships in Berlin after 1927 . 153 fighters from 24 nations took part.

Medals were awarded in ten weight classes. Germany and Poland won three gold medals each, the Soviet Union and England two each.

Results

CLASS	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
Flyweight	Edgar Basel Germany	Mircea Dobrescu Romania	Henryk Kukier Poland Wolfgang Behrendt GDR
Bantamweight	Zenon Stefaniuk Poland	Boris Stepanov Soviet Union	Daniel Hellebuyck Belgium Wolfgang Schwarz Germany
Featherweight	Thomas Nicholls England	Alexander Sassuchin Soviet Union	Hans-Peter Mehling Germany Pentti Hämäläinen Finland
lightweight	Harry Kurschat Germany	Darweesh Mustafa Egypt	Ilija Lukić Yugoslavia Pentti Rautiainen Finland
Light welterweight	Leszek Drogosz Poland	Pál Budai Hungary	Wladimir Jengibarjan Soviet Union Hans Petersen Denmark
Welterweight	Nicholas Gargano England	Hippolyte Annex France	Nicolae Linca Romania Pavle Sovljanski Yugoslavia
Light middleweight	Zbigniew Pietrzykowski Poland	Karlos Dzhaneryan Soviet Union	Marcel Pigou France Rolf Caroli GDR
medium weight	Gennady Shatkov Soviet Union	Stig Sjölin Sweden	Dieter Wemhöner Germany Bedřich Koutný Czechoslovakia
Light heavyweight	Erich Schöppner Germany	Ulli Nitzschke GDR	Július Torma Czechoslovakia Ottavio Panunzi Italy
Heavyweight	Algirdas Šocikas Soviet Union	Horst Witterstein Germany	Horimir Netuka Czechoslovakia Francis Magnetto France

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
01	BR Germany	3	1	3	7th
02	Poland	3	0	1	4th
03	Soviet Union	2	3	1	6th
04th	England	2	0	0	2
05	France	0	1	2	3
	German Democratic Republic	0	1	2	3
07th	Romania	0	1	1	2
08th	Egypt	0	1	0	1
	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	Sweden	0	1	0	1
011	Czechoslovakia	0	0	3	3
012	Yugoslavia	0	0	2	2
	Finland	0	0	2	2
014th	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Denmark	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Total	10	10	20th	40

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