Boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

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Final results for the boxing competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics. The events were held at Messuhalli. From this edition of the Olympic Games, the bronze medal match was abolished. No bronze medals were awarded, but their flags were on the podium. In 1970, the AIBA and IOC agreed to retroactively award bronze medals to losing semifinalists. ^[1]

Medal summary

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (−51 kg) details	Nate Brooks   United States	Edgar Basel   Germany	Anatoli Bulakov   Soviet Union
			Willie Toweel   South Africa
Bantamweight (−54 kg) details	Pentti Hämäläinen   Finland	John McNally   Ireland	Kang Joon-Ho   South Korea
			Gennady Garbuzov   Soviet Union
Featherweight (−57 kg) details	Ján Zachara   Czechoslovakia	Sergio Caprari   Italy	Joseph Ventaja   France
			Leonard Leisching   South Africa
Lightweight (−60 kg) details	Aureliano Bolognesi   Italy	Aleksy Antkiewicz   Poland	Gheorghe Fiat   Romania
			Erkki Pakkanen   Finland
Light welterweight (−63.5 kg) details	Charles Adkins   United States	Viktor Mednov   Soviet Union	Bruno Visintin   Italy
			Erkki Mallenius   Finland
Welterweight (−67 kg) details	Zygmunt Chychla   Poland	Sergei Scherbakov   Soviet Union	Günther Heidemann   Germany
			Victor Jörgensen   Denmark
Light middleweight (−71 kg) details	László Papp   Hungary	Theunis van Schalkwyk   South Africa	Boris Tishin   Soviet Union
			Eladio Herrera   Argentina
Middleweight (−75 kg) details	Floyd Patterson   United States	Vasile Tiță   Romania	Boris Nikolov   Bulgaria
			Stig Sjölin   Sweden
Light heavyweight (−81 kg) details	Norvel Lee   United States	Antonio Pacenza   Argentina	Anatoly Perov   Soviet Union
			Harry Siljander   Finland
Heavyweight (+81 kg) details	Ed Sanders   United States	Ingemar Johansson   Sweden	Ilkka Koski   Finland
			Andries Nieman   South Africa

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States  (USA)	5	0	0	5
2	Italy  (ITA)	1	1	1	3
3	Poland  (POL)	1	1	0	2
4	Finland  (FIN)	1	0	4	5
5	Czechoslovakia  (TCH)	1	0	0	1
	Hungary  (HUN)	1	0	0	1
7	Soviet Union  (URS)	0	2	4	6
8	South Africa  (RSA)	0	1	3	4
9	Argentina  (ARG)	0	1	1	2
	Germany  (GER)	0	1	1	2
	Romania  (ROU)	0	1	1	2
	Sweden  (SWE)	0	1	1	2
13	Ireland  (IRL)	0	1	0	1
14	Bulgaria  (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	Denmark  (DEN)	0	0	1	1
	France  (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea  (KOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 entries)		10	10	20	40

Participating nations

•   Argentina  (10)
•   Australia  (5)
•   Austria  (4)
•   Belgium  (5)
•   Brazil  (6)
•   Bulgaria  (4)
•   Burma  (3)
•   Canada  (7)
•   Ceylon  (2)
•   Czechoslovakia  (5)
•   Denmark  (5)
•   Egypt  (7)
•   Finland  (10)
•   France  (10)
•   Germany  (9)
•   Great Britain  (10)
•   Hungary  (9)
•   India  (4)
•   Iran  (6)
•   Ireland  (8)
•   Italy  (10)
•   Japan  (2)
•   South Korea  (4)
•   Lebanon  (1)
•   Luxembourg  (4)
•   Mexico  (3)
•   Netherlands  (5)
•   Norway  (4)
•   Pakistan  (4)
•   Philippines  (5)
•   Poland  (10)
•   Puerto Rico  (3)
•   Romania  (10)
•   Saar  (3)
•   South Africa  (9)
•   Soviet Union  (10)
•   Sweden  (8)
•   Switzerland  (6)
•   United States  (10)
•   Uruguay  (2)
•   Venezuela  (5)
•   Vietnam  (2)
•   Yugoslavia  (3)

References

1. "Boxing at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 November 2018.

External links

• Official Olympic Report