1957 European Amateur Boxing Championships

The 1957 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Prague, Czechoslovakia, from May 25 to June 2. The 12th edition of the bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA. There were 149 fighters from 21 countries participating.

Medal winners

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (– 51 kilograms)	Manfred Homberg West Germany	Mircea Dobrescu Romania	Peter Davies Wales René Libeer France
Bantamweight (– 54 kilograms)	Oleg Grigoryev Soviet Union	Gianfranco Piovesani Italy	Peter Goschka West Germany Johnny Morrisey Scotland
Featherweight (– 57 kilograms)	Dimitar Velinov Bulgaria	Mario Sitri Italy	Kazimierz Boczarski Poland Vladimir Safronov Soviet Union
Lightweight (– 60 kilograms)	Kazimierz Paździor Poland	Olli Mäki Finland	John Kidd Scotland Horst Herper West Germany
Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kilograms)	Vladimir Yengibaryan Soviet Union	Walter Ivanus Czechoslovakia	Zygmunt Milewski Poland Ilija Lukić Yugoslavia
Welterweight (– 67 kilograms)	Manfred Grauss West Germany	Leopold Potesil Austria	Yuri Gromov Soviet Union Fred Tiedt Ireland
Light Middleweight (– 71 kilograms)	Nino Benvenuti Italy	Tadeusz Walasek Poland	Rolf Caroli East Germany Ivan Sobolev Soviet Union
Middleweight (– 75 kilograms)	Zbigniew Pietrzykowski Poland	Dragoslav Jakovljević Yugoslavia	Paul Nickel East Germany Karl Schoenberg West Germany
Light Heavyweight (– 81 kilograms)	Gheorghe Negrea Romania	Petar Stankov Bulgaria	Zdenek Cipro Czechoslovakia Laszlo Csabajszky Hungary
Heavyweight (+ 81 kilograms)	Andrey Abramov Soviet Union	Vasile Mariutan Romania	Josef Němec Czechoslovakia Branislav Davidović Yugoslavia

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	3	0	3	6
2	Poland	2	1	2	5
3	West Germany	2	0	3	5
4	Italy	1	2	0	3
–	Romania	1	2	0	3
6	Bulgaria	1	1	0	2
7	Czechoslovakia	0	1	2	3
–	Yugoslavia	0	1	2	3
9	Finland	0	1	0	1
–	Austria	0	1	0	1
11	East Germany	0	0	2	2
–	Scotland	0	0	2	2
13	France	0	0	1	1
–	Hungary	0	0	1	1
–	Ireland	0	0	1	1
–	Wales	0	0	1	1

External links

European Amateur Boxing Championships

Men's	Stockholm 1925 Berlin 1927 Budapest 1930 Budapest 1934 Milan 1937 Dublin 1939 Breslau 1942 Dublin 1947 Oslo 1949 Milan 1951 Warsaw 1953 West Berlin 1955 Prague 1957 Luzern 1959 Belgrade 1961 Moscow 1963 East Berlin 1965 Rome 1967 Bucharest 1969 Madrid 1971 Belgrade 1973 Katowice 1975 Halle 1977 Cologne 1979 Tampere 1981 Varna 1983 Budapest 1985 Torino 1987 Athens 1989 Gothenburg 1991 Bursa 1993 Vejle 1996 Minsk 1998 Tampere 2000 Perm 2002 Pula 2004 Plovdiv 2006 Liverpool 2008 Moscow 2010 Ankara 2011 Minsk 2013 Samokov 2015

Women's	St.Amand-les-Eaux 2001 Pecs 2003 Riccione 2004 Tonsberg 2005 Warsaw 2006 Vejle 2007 Mykolaiv 2009 Rotterdam 2011 Bucharest 2014

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