Boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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Italy dominated boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics, winning three gold medals and seven medals overall. Two of the gold medalists would later become Hall of Fame world champions in professional boxing: American Cassius Clay (later known as Muhammad Ali) and Italian Nino Benvenuti. ^[1]

Medalists

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (−51 kg) details	Gyula Török   Hungary	Sergey Sivko   Soviet Union	Abdel Moneim El-Guindi   Egypt
			Kiyoshi Tanabe   Japan
Bantamweight (−54 kg) details	Oleg Grigoryev   Soviet Union	Primo Zamparini   Italy	Oliver Taylor   Australia
			Brunon Bendig   Poland
Featherweight (−57 kg) details	Francesco Musso   Italy	Jerzy Adamski   Poland	Jorma Limmonen   Finland
			William Meyers   South Africa
Lightweight (−60 kg) details	Kazimierz Paździor   Poland	Sandro Lopopolo   Italy	Richard McTaggart   Great Britain
			Abel Laudonio   Argentina
Light welterweight (−64 kg) details	Bohumil Němeček   Czechoslovakia	Clement Quartey   Ghana	Marian Kasprzyk   Poland
			Quincey Daniels   United States
Welterweight (−67 kg) details	Nino Benvenuti   Italy	Yuri Radonyak   Soviet Union	Jimmy Lloyd   Great Britain
			Leszek Drogosz   Poland
Light middleweight (−71 kg) details	Wilbert McClure   United States	Carmelo Bossi   Italy	William Fisher   Great Britain
			Boris Lagutin   Soviet Union
Middleweight (−75 kg) details	Eddie Crook, Jr.   United States	Tadeusz Walasek   Poland	Ion Monea   Romania
			Yevgeny Feofanov   Soviet Union
Light heavyweight (−81 kg) details	Cassius Clay   United States	Zbigniew Pietrzykowski   Poland	Giulio Saraudi   Italy
			Anthony Madigan   Australia
Heavyweight (+81 kg) details	Francesco de Piccoli   Italy	Daniel Bekker   South Africa	Günter Siegmund   Germany
			Josef Němec   Czechoslovakia

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Italy)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy*	3	3	1	7
2	United States	3	0	1	4
3	Poland	1	3	3	7
4	Soviet Union	1	2	2	5
5	Czechoslovakia	1	0	1	2
6	Hungary	1	0	0	1
7	South Africa	0	1	1	2
8	Ghana	0	1	0	1
9	Great Britain	0	0	3	3
10	Australia	0	0	2	2
11	Argentina	0	0	1	1
	Egypt	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
	United Team of Germany	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		10	10	20	40

Participating nations

•   Argentina  (10)
•   Australia  (10)
•   Austria  (5)
•   Belgium  (4)
•   Brazil  (5)
•   Bulgaria  (6)
•   Burma  (3)
•   Canada  (4)
•   Ceylon  (2)
•   Chile  (3)
•   Cuba  (1)
•   Czechoslovakia  (3)
•   Denmark  (5)
•   Egypt  (1)
•   Finland  (7)
•   Formosa  (2)
•   France  (8)
•   United Team of Germany  (10)
•   Ghana  (6)
•   Great Britain  (10)
•   Greece  (2)
•   Guyana  (1)
•   Hungary  (6)
•   Indonesia  (3)
•   Iran  (4)
•   Iraq  (2)
•   Ireland  (10)
•   Italy  (10)
•   Japan  (5)
•   South Korea  (6)
•   Luxembourg  (5)
•   Mexico  (3)
•   Morocco  (7)
•   Netherlands  (3)
•   Nigeria  (4)
•   Norway  (2)
•   Pakistan  (4)
•   Philippines  (1)
•   Poland  (10)
•   Rhodesia  (4)
•   Romania  (9)
•   South Africa  (8)
•   Soviet Union  (10)
•   Spain  (8)
•   Sudan  (3)
•   Sweden  (2)
•   Switzerland  (6)
•   Thailand  (3)
•   Tunisia  (5)
•   Uganda  (6)
•   United Arab Republic  (3)
•   United States  (10)
•   Uruguay  (3)
•   Venezuela  (3)
•   Yugoslavia  (4)

References

1. "Boxing at the 1960 Rome Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2018.

External links

• Official Olympic Report