Boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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In the 1960 Summer Olympics, Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. (later known as Muhammad Ali) won the gold medal in the boxing light heavyweight division for the United States.

Contents 1 Medals 2 Results 2.1 Flyweight (-51kg) 2.1.1 Quarterfinals 2.1.2 Semifinals 2.1.3 Final 2.2 Bantamweight (-54kg) 2.3 Featherweight (-57kg) 2.4 Lightweight (-60kg) 2.5 Light welterweight (-63.5kg) 2.6 Welterweight (-67kg) 2.7 Light middleweight (-71kg) 2.8 Middleweight (-75kg) 2.9 Light heavyweight (-81kg) 2.10 Heavyweight (81kg & over)

[edit] Medals

Pos	Country:	Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:	Total:
1	Italy	3	3	1	7
2	United States	3	0	1	4
3	Poland	1	3	3	7
4	USSR	1	2	2	5
5	Hungary	1	0	0	1
	Czechoslovakia	1	0	1	2
7	Ghana	0	1	0	1
	South Africa	0	1	1	2
9	Great Britain	0	0	3	3
10	Australia	0	0	2	0
11	Japan	0	0	1	1
	Egypt	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Argentina	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
	Germany	0	0	1	1

[edit] Results

[edit] Flyweight (-51kg)

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Gyula Török, Hungary	Sergei Sivko, Soviet Union	Kiyoshi Tanabe, Japan Abdelmoneim El-Guindi, Egypt

[edit] Quarterfinals

• Kiyoshi Tanabe (JPN) def. Mircea Dobrescu (ROM), 4:1

• Sergey Sivko (URS) def. Manfred Homberg (FRG), 5:0

• Gyula Török (HUN) def. Miguel Angel Botta (ARG), 5:0

• Abdelmoneim El-Guindi (EGY) def. Humberto Barrera (USA), 4:1

[edit] Semifinals

• Sergey Sivko (URS) def. Kiyoshi Tanabe (JPN), 4:1

• Gyula Török (HUN) def. Abdelmoneim El-Guindi (EGY), 4:1

[edit] Final

• Gyula Török (HUN) def. Sergey Sivko (URS), 3:2

[edit] Bantamweight (-54kg)

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Oleg Grigoryev, Soviet Union	Primo Zamparini, Italy	Brunon Bendig, Poland Oliver Taylor, Australia

[edit] Featherweight (-57kg)

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Francesco Musso, Italy	Jerzy Adamski, Poland	William Meyers, South Africa Jorma Johannes Limmonen, Finland

[edit] Lightweight (-60kg)

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Kazimierz Paździor, Poland	Sandro Lopopolo, Italy	Abel Ricardo Laudonio, Argentina Richard McTaggart, Great Britain

[edit] Light welterweight (-63.5kg)

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Bohumil Nemeček, Czechoslovakia	Clement Quartey, Ghana	Quincey Daniels, United States Marian Kasprzyk, Poland

[edit] Welterweight (-67kg)

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Giovanni Benvenuti, Italy	Yuri Radonyak, Soviet Union	Leszek Drogosz, Poland James Lloyd, Great Britain

[edit] Light middleweight (-71kg)

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Wilbert James McClure, United States	Carmelo Bossi, Italy	William Fisher, Great Britain Boris Lagutin, Soviet Union

[edit] Middleweight (-75kg)

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Edward Crook Jr., United States	Tadeusz Walasek, Poland	Yevgeni Feofanov, Soviet Union Ion Monea, Romania

[edit] Light heavyweight (-81kg)

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Cassius Clay, United States	Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, Poland	Anthony Madigan, Australia Giulio Saraudi, Italy

[edit] Heavyweight (81kg & over)

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Francesco de Piccoli, Italy	Daniel Wepener Bekker, South Africa	Josef Nemec, Czechoslovakia Günter Siegmund, Germany

Boxing at the Summer Olympics
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