Boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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Boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics
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Italy dominated boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics, winning three gold medals and seven medals overall. Two of the gold medalists would later become Hall of Fame world champions in professional boxing: American Cassius Clay (later known as Muhammad Ali) and Italian Nino Benvenuti.^[1]

Medalists

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
details	Gyula Török  Hungary	Sergey Sivko  Soviet Union	Egypt
			Kiyoshi Tanabe  Japan
details	Oleg Grigoryev  Soviet Union	Primo Zamparini  Italy	Oliver Taylor  Australia
			Brunon Bendig  Poland
details	Francesco Musso  Italy	Jerzy Adamski  Poland	Jorma Limmonen  Finland
			William Meyers  South Africa
details	Kazimierz Paździor  Poland	Sandro Lopopolo  Italy	Richard McTaggart  Great Britain
			Abel Laudonio  Argentina
details	Bohumil Němeček  Czechoslovakia	Clement Quartey  Ghana	Marian Kasprzyk  Poland
			Quincey Daniels  United States
details	Nino Benvenuti  Italy	Yuri Radonyak  Soviet Union	Jimmy Lloyd  Great Britain
			Leszek Drogosz  Poland
details	Wilbert McClure  United States	Carmelo Bossi  Italy	William Fisher  Great Britain
			Boris Lagutin  Soviet Union
details	Eddie Crook, Jr.  United States	Tadeusz Walasek  Poland	Ion Monea  Romania
			Yevgeny Feofanov  Soviet Union
details	Cassius Clay  United States	Zbigniew Pietrzykowski  Poland	Giulio Saraudi  Italy
			Anthony Madigan  Australia
details	Francesco de Piccoli  Italy	Daniel Bekker  South Africa	Germany
			Josef Němec  Czechoslovakia

Medal table

  *   Host nation (

Egypt0011 Finland0011 Japan0011 Romania0011 United Team of Germany

External links

• Official Olympic Report