Boxing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Boxing at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Dates	23 November-1 December 1956
Competitors	164 from 35 nations
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Boxing at the 1956 Summer Olympics took place at the West Melbourne Stadium. A total number of 164 competitors entered from 35 nations, of whom 161 from 34 nations weighed-in and boxing was held eight nights and five afternoons. The boxing schedule began on 23 November and ended on 1 December. Ten boxing events (all men's individual) were contested. ^[1]

Medal summary

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (−51 kg) details	Terence Spinks   Great Britain	Mircea Dobrescu   Romania	John Caldwell   Ireland
			René Libeer   France
Bantamweight (−54 kg) details	Wolfgang Behrendt   United Team of Germany	Song Soon-Chun   South Korea	Claudio Barrientos   Chile
			Frederick Gilroy   Ireland
Featherweight (−57 kg) details	Vladimir Safronov   Soviet Union	Thomas Nicholls   Great Britain	Henryk Niedźwiedzki   Poland
			Pentti Hämäläinen   Finland
Lightweight (−60 kg) details	Richard McTaggart   Great Britain	Harry Kurschat   United Team of Germany	Anatoly Lagetko   Soviet Union
			Anthony Byrne   Ireland
Light welterweight (−63.5 kg) details	Vladimir Yengibaryan   Soviet Union	Franco Nenci   Italy	Constantin Dumitrescu   Romania
			Henry Loubscher   South Africa
Welterweight (−67 kg) details	Nicolae Linca   Romania	Fred Tiedt   Ireland	Kevin Hogarth   Australia
			Nicholas Gargano   Great Britain
Light middleweight (−71 kg) details	László Papp   Hungary	José Torres   United States	John McCormack   Great Britain
			Zbigniew Pietrzykowski   Poland
Middleweight (−75 kg) details	Gennadi Schatkov   Soviet Union	Ramón Tapia   Chile	Gilbert Chapron   France
			Victor Zalazar   Argentina
Light heavyweight (−81 kg) details	James Boyd   United States	Gheorghe Negrea   Romania	Carlos Lucas   Chile
			Romualdas Murauskas   Soviet Union
Heavyweight (+81 kg) details	Pete Rademacher   United States	Lev Mukhin   Soviet Union	Daniel Bekker   South Africa
			Giacomo Bozzano   Italy

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union  (URS)	3	1	2	6
2	Great Britain  (GBR)	2	1	2	5
3	United States  (USA)	2	1	0	3
4	Romania  (ROU)	1	2	1	4
5	United Team of Germany  (EUA)	1	1	0	2
6	Hungary  (HUN)	1	0	0	1
7	Ireland  (IRL)	0	1	3	4
8	Chile  (CHI)	0	1	2	3
9	Italy  (ITA)	0	1	1	2
10	South Korea  (KOR)	0	1	0	1
11	France  (FRA)	0	0	2	2
	Poland  (POL)	0	0	2	2
	South Africa  (RSA)	0	0	2	2
14	Argentina  (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Australia  (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	Finland  (FIN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		10	10	20	40

Participating nations

•   Argentina  (10)
•   Australia  (9)
•   Austria  (1)
•   Belgium  (1)
•   Brazil  (2)
•   Bulgaria  (2)
•   Burma  (4)
•   Canada  (6)
•   Ceylon  (2)
•   Chile  (3)
•   Chinese Taipei  (1)
•   Czechoslovakia  (5)
•   Denmark  (3)
•   Fiji  (2)
•   Finland  (3)
•   France  (6)
•   United Team of Germany  (8)
•   Great Britain  (7)
•   Hungary  (2)
•   Ireland  (7)
•   Italy  (8)
•   Japan  (3)
•   South Korea  (5)
•   New Zealand  (2)
•   Pakistan  (6)
•   Philippines  (5)
•   Poland  (9)
•   Romania  (4)
•   South Africa  (7)
•   Soviet Union  (10)
•   Sweden  (3)
•   Thailand  (5)
•   United States  (8)
•   Venezuela  (2)

References

1. "Boxing at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2018.

External links

• United States 1956 Olympic Book, Quadrenniel Report United States Olympic Committee
• Official results
• Amateur Boxing