European Boxing Championships 1959

The 13 men's European Amateur Boxing Championships for amateurs were from 24. May bis 31 May 1959 in the Swiss Lucerne discharged. 180 fighters from 25 nations took part.

Medals were awarded in ten weight classes. Poland and the Soviet Union won three titles each, Germany two, Italy and Finland one each.

Results

CLASS	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
Flyweight	Manfred Homberg Germany	Gyula Török Hungary	Adam McClean Ireland Vladimir Stolnikov Soviet Union
Bantamweight	Horst Rascher Germany	Oleg Grigoryev Soviet Union	Zygmunt Zawadzki Poland Miodrag Mitrović Yugoslavia
Featherweight	Jerzy Adamski Poland	Peter Goschka Germany	André Juncker France Orhan Tuş Turkey
lightweight	Olli Mäki Finland	Demitar Velinov Bulgaria	Ferenc Waiter Hungary Iosif Mihalic Romania
Light welterweight	Vladimir Jengibarjan Soviet Union	Piero Brandi Italy	Rupert King Austria István Juhász Hungary
Welterweight	Leszek Drogosz Poland	Carmelo Bossi Italy	Bruno Guse DDR Harry Perry Ireland
Light middleweight	Nino Benvenuti Italy	Henryk Dampc Poland	Rolf Caroli GDR Dragoslav Jakovljević Yugoslavia
medium weight	Gennady Shatkov Soviet Union	Tadeusz Walasek Poland	Colm McCoy Ireland Harry Scott England
Light heavyweight	Zbigniew Pietrzykowski Poland	Gheorghe Negrea Romania	Lev Senkin Soviet Union Giulio Saraudi Italy
Heavyweight	Andrei Abramov Soviet Union	Dave Thomas England	Josef Němec Czechoslovakia Wladysław Jędrzejewski Poland

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
01	Poland	3	2	2	7th
02	Soviet Union	3	1	2	6th
03	Germany	2	1	0	3
04th	Italy	1	2	1	4th
05	Finland	1	0	0	1
06th	Hungary	0	1	2	3
07th	Romania	0	1	1	2
	England	0	1	1	2
09	Bulgaria	0	1	0	1
010	Ireland	0	0	3	3
011	German Democratic Republic	0	0	2	2
	Yugoslavia	0	0	2	2
013	Austria	0	0	1	1
	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
	Turkey	0	0	1	1
	Total	10	10	20th	40

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