Boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Italy and the United States dominated boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics, winning three gold medals for each country. Two of the gold medalists later became world champions in professional boxing: Cassius Clay^[1] and Nino Benvenuti.^[2]

Competition format

Men competed in the following ten events:

• Flyweight (51kg)
• Bantamweight (54kg)
• Featherweight (57kg)
• Lightweight (60kg)
• Light welterweight (64kg)
• Welterweight (67kg)
• Light middleweight (71kg)
• Middleweight (75kg)
• Light heavyweight (81kg)
• Heavyweight (+81kg)

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight	Gyula Török  Hungary	Sergey Sivko  Soviet Union	Abdel Moneim El-Guindi  United Arab Republic
			Kiyoshi Tanabe  Japan
Bantamweight	Oleg Grigoryev  Soviet Union	Primo Zamparini  Italy	Ollie Taylor  Australia
			Brunon Bendig  Poland
Featherweight	Francesco Musso  Italy	Jerzy Adamski  Poland	Jorma Limmonen  Finland
			William Meyers  South Africa
Lightweight	Kazimierz Paździor  Poland	Sandro Lopopolo  Italy	Richard McTaggart  Great Britain
			Abel Laudonio  Argentina
Light welterweight	Bohumil Němeček  Czechoslovakia	Clement Quartey  Ghana	Marian Kasprzyk  Poland
			Quincey Daniels  United States
Welterweight	Nino Benvenuti  Italy	Yuri Radonyak  Soviet Union	Jimmy Lloyd  Great Britain
			Leszek Drogosz  Poland
Light middleweight	Wilbert McClure  United States	Carmelo Bossi  Italy	William Fisher  Great Britain
			Boris Lagutin  Soviet Union
Middleweight	Eddie Crook, Jr.  United States	Tadeusz Walasek  Poland	Ion Monea  Romania
			Yevgeny Feofanov  Soviet Union
Light heavyweight	Cassius Clay  United States	Zbigniew Pietrzykowski  Poland	Giulio Saraudi  Italy
			Anthony Madigan  Australia
Heavyweight	Francesco de Piccoli  Italy	Daniel Bekker  South Africa	Günter Siegmund  Germany
			Josef Němec  Czechoslovakia

Medals

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

Results

Flyweight (-51 kg)

Left-right:Kiyoshi Tanabe, Abdel Moneim El-Guindi, Gyula Török, Sergei Sivko

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

Round 1

• Paolo Curcetti (ITA) def. Frank Kisekka (UGA), 5-0

Quarterfinals

• Kiyoshi Tanabe (JPN) def. Mircea Dobrescu (ROU), 4:1
• Sergei Sivko (URS) def. Manfred Homberg (FRG), 5:0
• Gyula Török (HUN) def. Miguel Angel Botta (ARG), 5:0
• Abdel Moneim El-Guindi(EGY) def. Humberto Barrera (USA), 4:1

Semifinals

• Sergei Sivko (URS) def. Kiyoshi Tanabe (JPN), 4:1
• Gyula Török (HUN) def. Abdel Moneim El-Guindi (EGY), 4:1

Final

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

Bantamweight (-54kg)

Left-right: Oliver Taylor, Brunon Bendig, Oleg Grigoryev, Primo Zamparini

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

Featherweight (-57kg)

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

Lightweight (-60kg)

Left-right: Richard McTaggart, Abel Laudonio, Kazimierz Paździor, Sandro Lopopolo

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

Light welterweight (-63.5kg)

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

Welterweight (-67kg)

Left-right:Jimmy Lloyd, Leszek Drogosz, Giovanni Benvenuti, Yuri Radonyak

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

Light middleweight (-71kg)

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

Middleweight (-75kg)

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Eddie Crook, Jr.	Tadeusz Walasek, Poland	Yevgeny Feofanov, Soviet Union Ion Monea, Romania

Light heavyweight (-81kg)

Left-right: Giulio Saraudi, Anthony Madigan, Cassius Clay, Zbigniew Pietrzykowski

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Cassius Clay,[1] United States	Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, Poland	Anthony Madigan, Australia Giulio Saraudi, Italy

First round

• Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (POL) def. Carl Crawford (GUA), 5–0
• Petar Spassov (BUL) def. Johnny Ould (GBR), 4–1
• Matti Aho (FIN) def. Colm McCoy (IRL), 4–0

Second round

• Gennadiy Shatkov (URS) def. Ray Cillien (LUX), 5–0
• Cassius Clay^[1] (USA) def. Yvon Becaus (BEL), stoppage – 2nd round
• Anthony Madigan def. Lars-Olof Norling (SVE), 5–0
• Gheorghe Negrea (ROM) def. George Oywello (UGA), 5–0
• Giulio Saraudi (ITA) def. Muhammad Safdar (PAK), 5–0
• Rafael Gargiulo (ARG) def. José Leite (BRA), stoppage – 1st round
• Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (POL) def. Emil Willer (GER), 5–0
• Petar Spassov (BUL) def. Matti Aho (FIN), 5–0

Quarterfinals

• Cassius Clay^[1] (USA) def. Gennadiy Shatkov (URS), 5–0
• Anthony Madigan (AUS) def. Gheorghe Negrea (ROM), ko – 2nd round
• Giulio Saraudi (ITA) def. Rafael Gargiulo (ARG), 5–0
• Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (POL) def. Petar Spassov (BUL), 5–0

Semifinals

• Cassius Clay^[1] (USA) def. Anthony Madigan (AUS), 5–0
• Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (POL) def. Giulio Saraudi (ITA), 5–0

Final

• Cassius Clay^[1] (USA) def. Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (POL), 5–0

Heavyweight (81+ kg)

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

Round 1

• Obrad.Sretenovic (YUG) def. Joe.Casey (IRL), 5-0

Round 2

• Josef Němec (USA) def. Thomas Dave (GBR),5-0
• Percy Jr Price (USA) def Ron Taylor (AUS),ko 2 round
• Andrey Abramov (URS) def Manuel Garcia (ESP) stop 1 round
• Franco de Piccoli (ITA) def Willy Venneman (BEL),Abandon 1 round

References

1. Known as Muhammad Ali since March 6, 1964
2. Boxing at the 1960 Roma Summer Games. sports-reference.com/olympics

External links

• Official Olympic Report