Boxing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Boxing at the 1956 Summer Olympics took place in the new stadium at West Melbourne. 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 November 23 and ended on December 1. Ten boxing events (all men's individual) were contested.

Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Soviet Union (URS) 3126
2  Great Britain (GBR) 2125
3  United States (USA) 2103
4  Romania (ROU) 1214
5  United Team of Germany (EUA) 1102
6  Hungary (HUN) 1001
7  Ireland (IRL) 0134
8  Chile (CHI) 0123
9  Italy (ITA) 0112
10  South Korea (KOR) 0101
11  France (FRA) 0022
 Poland (POL) 0022
 South Africa (RSA) 0022
14  Argentina (ARG) 0011
 Australia (AUS) 0011
 Finland (FIN) 0011

Flyweight ( 51 kg)

Rank Name Athlete Country
Terence Spinks GBR
Mircea Dobrescu ROU
John Caldwell IRL
René Libeer FRA

First round

Second round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Bantamweight (54 kg)

Rank Name Athlete Country
Wolfgang Behrendt EUA
Song Soon-Chun KOR
Claudio Barrientos CHI
Frederick Gilroy IRL

First round

Second round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Featherweight (57 kg)

Rank Name Athlete Country
Vladimir Safronov URS
Thomas Nicholls GBR
Henryk Niedźwiedzki POL
Pentti Hämäläinen FIN

First round

Second round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Lightweight (60 kg)

Rank Name Athlete Country
Richard McTaggart GBR
Harry Kurschat EUA
Anatoly Lagetko URS
Anthony Byrne IRL

First round

Second round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Light Welterweight (63.5 kg)

Rank Name Athlete Country
Vladimir Yengibaryan URS
Franco Nenci ITA
Constantin Dumitrescu ROU
Henry Loubscher RSA

First round

Second round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Welterweight (67 kg)

Rank Name Athlete Country
Nicolae Linca ROU
Fred Tiedt IRL
Kevin Hogarth AUS
Nicholas Gargano GBR

First round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Light Middleweight (71 kg)

Rank Name Athlete Country
László Papp HUN
José Torres USA
John McCormack GBR
Zbigniew Pietrzykowski POL

First round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Middleweight (75 kg)

Rank Name Athlete Country
Gennadi Schatkov URS
Ramón Tapia CHI
Gilbert Chapron FRA
Victor Zalazar ARG

First round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Light Heavyweight (81 kg)

Rank Name Athlete Country
James Boyd USA
Gheorghe Negrea ROU
Carlos Lucas CHI
Romualdas Murauskas URS

First round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Heavyweight (81+ kg)

Rank Name Athlete Country
Pete Rademacher USA
Lev Mukhin URS
Daniel Bekker RSA
Giacomo Bozzano ITA

First round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

References

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