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

• Amateur Boxing