Boxing at the 1958 Asian Games

The Boxing Tournament at the 1958 Asian Games was held in Korakuen Ice Palace, Tokyo, Japan from 28 to 31 May 1958.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (51 kg)	Akio Maki  Japan	Hla Nyunt  Burma	Ezaria Ilkhanoff  Iran
			Kim Chang-han  South Korea
Bantamweight (54 kg)	Thein Myint  Burma	Takeo Suzuki  Japan	Muhammad Nazir  Pakistan
			Jacinto Diaz  Philippines
Featherweight (57 kg)	Isami Ikeyama  Japan	Dionisio Guevarra  Philippines	Austin Dunsford  Singapore
			Song Soon-chun  South Korea
Lightweight (60 kg)	Chung Dong-hoon  South Korea	Shinichiro Suzuki  Japan	Celedonio Espinosa  Philippines
			Sundar Rao  India
Light welterweight (63.5 kg)	Shigemasa Kawakami  Japan	Vazik Kazarian  Iran	Sueb Chundakowsolaya  Thailand
			Kim Deuk-bong  South Korea
Welterweight (67 kg)	Kim Ki-soo  South Korea	Soren Pirjanian  Iran	Tongsai Teptani  Thailand
			Toshiro Onuki  Japan
Light middleweight (71 kg)	Osamu Takahashi  Japan	Amir Yavari  Iran	Bait Hussain  Pakistan
			Stanley Majid  Burma
Middleweight (75 kg)	Chang Lo-po  Republic of China	Hari Singh  India	Leon Khachatourian  Iran
			Shoichi Matsuura  Japan
Light heavyweight (81 kg)	Shuichi Nakayama  Japan	Sultan Mahmood  Pakistan	Akbar Khojini  Iran
			None awarded
Heavyweight (+81 kg)	Shunzo Nishio  Japan	Khalid Mumtaz  Pakistan	None awarded
			None awarded

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	6	2	2	10
2	South Korea	2	0	3	5
3	Burma	1	1	1	3
4	Republic of China	1	0	0	1
5	Iran	0	3	3	6
6	Pakistan	0	2	2	4
7	Philippines	0	1	2	3
8	India	0	1	1	2
9	Thailand	0	0	2	2
10	Singapore	0	0	1	1
Total		10	10	17	37

Participating nations

A total of 62 athletes from 11 nations competed in boxing at the 1958 Asian Games:

• Burma (6)
• Cambodia (1)
• India (3)
• Iran (9)
• Japan (10)
• Pakistan (5)
• Philippines (6)
• Republic of China (8)
• Singapore (1)
• South Korea (7)
• Thailand (6)

References

• Results