Boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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]

Boxing
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
← 1956
1964 →

Medalists

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

Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Italy)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Italy*3317
2  United States3014
3  Poland1337
4  Soviet Union1225
5  Czechoslovakia1012
6  Hungary1001
7  South Africa0112
8  Ghana0101
9  Great Britain0033
10  Australia0022
11  Argentina0011
  Egypt0011
  Finland0011
  Japan0011
  Romania0011
  United Team of Germany0011
Totals (16 entries)10102040

References

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