1956 Summer Olympics / Boxing

Boxing at the XVI. Summer Olympics
information
venue	Melbourne
Competition venue	West Melbourne Stadium
Nations	34
Athletes	161 (161 men)
date	November 23 - December 1, 1956
decisions	10
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At the XVI. At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne , ten boxing competitions were held for men. The venue was the West Melbourne Stadium (today's Festival Hall ). A total of 161 athletes from 34 countries took part. 40 participants each won ten gold and silver and 20 bronze medals. The most successful nation was the Soviet Union with six medals (3 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze).

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Soviet Union	3	1	2	6th
2	United Kingdom	2	1	2	5
3	United States	2	1	-	3
4th	Romania	1	2	1	4th
5	Germany	1	1	-	2
6th	Hungary	1	-	-	1
7th	Ireland	-	1	3	4th
8th	Chile	-	1	2	3
9	Italy	-	1	1	2
10	South Korea	-	1	-	1
11	France	-	-	2	2
	Poland	-	-	2	2
	South African Union	-	-	2	2
14th	Argentina	-	-	1	1
	Australia	-	-	1	1
	Finland	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Flyweight	Terry Spinks	Mircea Dobrescu	Johnny Caldwell René Libeer
Bantamweight	Wolfgang Behrendt	Song Soon-chun	Claudio Barriento's Freddie Gilroy
Featherweight	Vladimir Safronov	Thomas Nicholls	Pentti Hämäläinen Henryk Niedźwiedzki
lightweight	Richard McTaggart	Harry Kurschat	Anthony Byrne Anatoly Lagetko
Light welterweight	Vladimir Jengibarjan	Franco Nenci	Constantin Dumitrescu Henry Loubscher
Welterweight	Nicolae Linca	Frederick Tiedt	Nicholas Gargano Kevin Hogarth
Light middleweight	László cardboard	José Torres	John McCormack Zbigniew Pietrzykowski
medium weight	Gennady Shatkov	Ramón Tapia	Gilbert Chapron Víctor Zalazar
Light heavyweight	James Boyd	Gheorghe Negrea	Carlos Lucas Romualdas Murauskas
Heavyweight	Pete Rademacher	Lew Muchin	Daan Bekker Giacomo Bozzano

Results

Flyweight (up to 51 kg)

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space	country	athlete
1	GBR	Terry Spinks
2	ROME	Mircea Dobrescu
3	IRL	Johnny Caldwell
	FRA	René Libeer
5	OUT	Warner Batchelor
	United States	Ray Perez
	URS	Vladimir Stolnikov
	JPN	Kenji Yonekura
17th	EUA	Edgar Basel

Date: November 23 to October 1, 1956
19 participants from 19 countries

Bantam weight (up to 54 kg)

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space	country	athlete
1	EUA	Wolfgang Behrendt
2	COR	Song Soon-chun
3	CHI	Claudio Barrientos
	IRL	Freddie Gilroy
5	BRA	Éder Jofre
	GBR	Owen Reilly
	ITA	Mario Sitri
	ARG	Carmelo Tomaselli

Date: November 23 to October 1, 1956
18 participants from 18 countries

Feather weight (up to 57 kg)

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space	country	athlete
1	URS	Vladimir Safronov
2	GBR	Thomas Nicholls
3	FIN	Pentti Hämäläinen
	POLE	Henryk Niedźwiedzki
5	FRA	André de Souza
	ARG	Tristán Falfán
	JPN	Shinichiro Suzuki
	TCH	Ján Zachara
9	EUA	Bernhard Schröter

Date: November 23 to October 1, 1956
18 participants from 18 countries

Lightweight (up to 60 kg)

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space	country	athlete
1	GBR	Richard McTaggart
2	EUA	Harry Kurschat
3	IRL	Anthony Byrne
	URS	Anatoly Lagetko
5	CAN	Edward Beattie
	POLE	Zygmunt Milewski
	United States	Louis Molina
	FRA	André Vairolatto

Date: November 23 to October 1, 1956
18 participants from 18 countries

Half welter weight (up to 63.5 kg)

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space	country	athlete
1	URS	Vladimir Jengibarjan
2	ITA	Franco Nenci
3	ROME	Constantin Dumitrescu
	RSA	Henry Loubscher
5	COR	Hwang Ui-gyeong
	ARG	Antonio Marcilla
	FRA	Claude Saluden
	United States	Joe Shaw
9	AUT	Leopold Potesil
	EUA	Willi Roth

Date: November 24th to October 1st, 1956
22 participants from 22 countries

Welter weight (up to 67 kg)

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space	country	athlete
1	ROME	Nicolae Linca
2	IRL	Frederick Tiedt
3	GBR	Nicholas Gargano
	OUT	Kevin Hogarth
5	RSA	Nicholas André
	HUN	András Dőri
	ARG	Francisco Gelaberti
	United States	Pearce Lane

Date: November 24th to October 1st, 1956
16 participants from 16 countries

Medium weight (up to 71 kg)

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space	country	athlete
1	HUN	László cardboard
2	United States	José Torres
3	GBR	John McCormack
	POLE	Zbigniew Pietrzykowski
5	EUA	Ulrich Kienast
	BUL	Boris Nikolov
	ITA	Franco Scisciani
	ARG	Alberto Sáenz

Date: November 24th to October 1st, 1956
14 participants from 14 countries

Middle weight (up to 75 kg)

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space	country	athlete
1	URS	Gennady Shatkov
2	CHI	Ramón Tapia
3	FRA	Gilbert Chapron
	ARG	Víctor Zalazar
5	ITA	Giulio Rinaldi
	United States	Roger Rouse
	TCH	Július Torma
	EUA	Dieter Wemhöner

Date: November 26th to October 1st, 1956
14 participants from 24 countries

Light heavyweight (up to 81 kg)

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space	country	athlete
1	United States	James Boyd
2	ROME	Gheorghe Negrea
3	CHI	Carlos Lucas
	URS	Romualdas Murauskas
5	ARG	Rodolfo Díaz
	OUT	Anthony Madigan
	ITA	Ottavio Panunzi
	POLE	Andrzej Wojciechowski

Date: November 23 to October 1, 1956
11 participants from 11 countries

Heavy weight (over 81 kg)

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space	country	athlete
1	United States	Pete Rademacher
2	URS	Lew Muchin
3	RSA	Daan Bekker
	ITA	Giacomo Bozzano
5	SWE	Törner Åhsman
	ARG	José Giorgetti
	TCH	Josef Němec
	GER	Ulrich Nitzschke

Date: November 24th to October 1st, 1956
11 participants from 11 countries

Web links

• Boxing at the 1956 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1956 Summer Games (PDF; 32.5 MB)