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.

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[edit] Medals

Pos Country: Gold: Silver: Bronze: Total:
1 Italy Italy (ITA) 3 3 1 7
2 United States United States (USA) 3 0 1 4
3 Poland Poland (POL) 1 3 3 7
4 Soviet Union Soviet Union (URS) 1 2 2 5
5 Hungary Hungary (HUN) 1 0 0 1
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia (TCH) 1 0 1 2
7 Ghana Ghana (GHA) 0 1 0 1
South Africa South Africa (RSA) 0 1 1 2
9 Great Britain Great Britain (GBR) 0 0 3 3
10 Australia Australia (AUS) 0 0 2 2
11 Japan Japan (JPN) 0 0 1 1
Egypt Egypt (EGY) 0 0 1 1
Finland Finland (FIN) 0 0 1 1
Argentina Argentina (ARG) 0 0 1 1
Romania Romania (ROM) 0 0 1 1
Germany Germany (EUA) 0 0 1 1

[edit] Results

[edit] Flyweight (-51kg)

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

[edit] Quarterfinals

  • Sergei Sivko (URS) def. Manfred Homberg (FRG), 5:0
  • Abdelmoneim El-Guindi (EGY) def. Humberto Barrera (USA), 4:1

[edit] Semifinals

[edit] Final

[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 Limmonen, Finland

[edit] Lightweight (-60kg)

Gold: Silver: Bronze:
Kazimierz Paździor, Poland Sandro Lopopolo, Italy Abel 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
Jimmy Lloyd, Great Britain

[edit] Light middleweight (-71kg)

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

[edit] Middleweight (-75kg)

Gold: Silver: Bronze:
Eddie Crook, Jr. Tadeusz Walasek, Poland Yevgeny 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)

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

Günter Siegmund, Germany