1960 Summer Olympics / Boxing

Boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Rome
Competition venue	Palazzo dello Sport
Nations	54
Athletes	281 (281 )
date	August 25 - September 5, 1960
decisions	10
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At the XVII. At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome , ten boxing competitions were held. The venue was the Palazzo dello Sport in the EUR district , the hall had a capacity of 15,000 spectators.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Italy	3	3	1	7th
2	United States	3	-	1	4th
3	Poland	1	3	3	7th
4th	Soviet Union	1	2	2	5
5	Czechoslovakia	1	-	1	2
6th	Hungary	1	-	-	1
7th	South African Union	-	1	1	2
8th	Ghana	-	1	-	1
9	Great Britain	-	-	3	3
10	Australia	-	-	2	2
11	Argentina	-	-	1	1
	Germany	-	-	1	1
	Finland	-	-	1	1
	Japan	-	-	1	1
	Romania	-	-	1	1
	United Arab Republic	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Flyweight	Gyula Törok	Sergei Sivko	Abdelmoneim El-Guindi Kiyoshi Tanabe
Bantamweight	Oleg Grigoryev	Primo Zamparini	Brunon Bendig Oliver Taylor
Featherweight	Francesco Musso	Jerzy Adamski	Jorma Limmonen William Meyers
lightweight	Kazimierz Paździor	Sandro Lopopolo	Abel Laudonio Richard McTaggart
Light welterweight	Bohumil Němeček	Clement Quartey	Quincy Daniels Marian Kasprzyk
Welterweight	Nino Benvenuti	Yuri Radonjak	Leszek Drogosz James Lloyd
Light middleweight	Wilbert McClure	Carmelo Bossi	William Fisher Boris Lagutin
medium weight	Edward Crook	Tadeusz Walasek	Yevgeny Feofanov Ion Monea
Light heavyweight	Cassius Clay	Zbigniew Pietrzykowski	Anthony Madigan Giulio Saraudi
Heavyweight	Franco De Piccoli	Daan Bekker	Josef Němec Günter Siegmund

Results

Flyweight (up to 51 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	HUN	Gyula Törok
2	URS	Sergei Sivko
3	VAR	Abdelmoneim El-Guindi
	JPN	Kiyoshi Tanabe
5	United States	Humberto Barrera
	ARG	Miguel Angel Botta
	ROME	Mircea Dobrescu
	EUA	Manfred Homberg
9	SUI	Paul Chervet
17th	LUX	Robert Rausch

Award ceremony (from left: Tanabe, El-Guindi, Török, Siwko)

Date: August 25th to September 5th, 1960
33 participants from 33 countries

Bantam weight (up to 54 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	URS	Oleg Grigoryev
2	ITA	Primo Zamparini
3	POLE	Brunon Bendig
	OUT	Oliver Taylor
5	United States	Jerry Armstrong
	ESP	Alfonso Carbajo
	BIR	Thein Myint
	EUA	Horst Rascher
9	AUT	Peter Weiss
17th	SUI	Emile Anner
	LUX	Charles Reiff

Award ceremony (from left: Taylor, Bendig, Grigorjew, Zamparini)

Date: August 25th to September 5th, 1960
32 participants from 32 countries

Feather weight (up to 57 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	ITA	Francesco Musso
2	POLE	Jerzy Adamski
3	FIN	Jorma Limmonen
	RSA	William Meyers
5	RHO	Abel Bekker
	SUI	Ernst Chervet
	ROME	Constantin Gheorghiu
	URS	Boris Nikonorov
9	EUA	Werner Kirsch

Date: August 25th to September 5th, 1960
31 participants from 31 countries

Lightweight (up to 60 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	POLE	Kazimierz Paździor
2	ITA	Sandro Lopopolo
3	ARG	Abel Laudonio
	GBR	Richard McTaggart
5	URS	Wilikton Barannikov
	United States	Harry Campbell
	HUN	Ferenc waiter
	VAR	Salah Shokweir
9	EUA	Harry Lempio
17th	AUT	Josef Grumser

Award ceremony (from left: McTaggart, Laudonio, Paździor, Lopopolo)

Date: August 25th to September 5th, 1960
34 participants from 34 countries

Half welter weight (up to 63.5 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	TCH	Bohumil Němeček
2	GHA	Clement Quartey
3	United States	Quincy Daniels
	POLE	Marian Kasprzyk
5	ITA	Piero Brandi
	VAR	Sayed El-Nahas
	URS	Vladimir Engibarjan
	COR	Kim Deuk-bong
17th	EUA	Werner Busse
	AUT	Rupert Koenig
33	LUX	François Sowa

Date: August 25th to September 5th, 1960
34 participants from 34 countries

Welter weight (up to 67 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	ITA	Nino Benvenuti
2	URS	Yuri Radonjak
3	POLE	Leszek Drogosz
	GBR	James Lloyd
5	United States	Phillip Baldwin
	BUL	Schischman Mizew
	RSA	Henry Loubscher
	ESP	Andrés Navarro
9	SUI	Max Meier
17th	LUX	René Green
	EUA	Bruno Guse

Medal winners (from left: Lloyd, Drogosz, Benvenuti, Radonjak)

Date: August 25th to September 5th, 1960
33 participants from 33 countries

Medium weight (up to 71 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Wilbert McClure
2	ITA	Carmelo Bossi
3	GBR	William Fisher
	URS	Boris Lagutin
5	OUT	John Bukowski
	POLE	Henryk Dampc
	FRA	Souleymane Diallo
	ARG	Celedonio Lima
17th	EUA	Rolf Caroli

Date: August 25th to September 5th, 1960
23 participants from 23 countries

Middle weight (up to 75 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Edward Crook
2	POLE	Tadeusz Walasek
3	URS	Yevgeny Feofanov
	ROME	Ion Monea
5	SUI	Hans Büchi
	ROC	Chang Lo-pu
	ITA	Luigi Napoleoni
	RSA	Frik van Rooyen
17th	EUA	Eberhard Radzik
	AUT	Egon Rusch

Date: August 25th to September 5th, 1960
25 participants from 25 countries

Light heavyweight (up to 81 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Cassius Clay
2	POLE	Zbigniew Pietrzykowski
3	OUT	Anthony Madigan
	ITA	Giulio Saraudi
5	ARG	Rafael Gargiulo
	ROME	Gheorghe Negrea
	URS	Gennady Shatkov
	BUL	Petar Spasov
9	LUX	Raymond Cillien
	EUA	Emil Willer

Award ceremony (from left: Saraudi, Madigan, Clay, Pietrzykowski)

Date: August 25th to September 5th, 1960
19 participants from 19 countries

Heavy weight (over 81 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	ITA	Franco De Piccoli
2	RSA	Daan Bekker
3	TCH	Josef Němec
	EUA	Günter Siegmund
5	URS	Andrei Abramov
	ROME	Vasile Mariuțan
	YUG	Obrad Sretenović
	GBR	David Thomas
9	SUI	Max Bösiger

Date: August 25th to September 5th, 1960
17 participants from 17 countries

Web links

• Boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 1960 Summer Games (PDF, 11.9 MB)