Boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Final results for the boxing competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics. The events were held at Messuhalli. From this edition of the Olympic Games, the bronze medal match was abolished. No bronze medals were awarded, but their flags were on the podium. In 1970, the AIBA and IOC agreed to retroactively award bronze medals to losing semifinalists.^[1]

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Medal summary

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (−51 kg) details	Nate Brooks  United States	Edgar Basel  Germany	Anatoli Bulakov  Soviet Union
			Willie Toweel  South Africa
Bantamweight (−54 kg) details	Pentti Hämäläinen  Finland	John McNally  Ireland	Kang Joon-Ho  South Korea
			Gennady Garbuzov  Soviet Union
Featherweight (−57 kg) details	Ján Zachara  Czechoslovakia	Sergio Caprari  Italy	Joseph Ventaja  France
			Leonard Leisching  South Africa
Lightweight (−60 kg) details	Aureliano Bolognesi  Italy	Aleksy Antkiewicz  Poland	Gheorghe Fiat  Romania
			Erkki Pakkanen  Finland
Light welterweight (−63.5 kg) details	Charles Adkins  United States	Viktor Mednov  Soviet Union	Bruno Visintin  Italy
			Erkki Mallenius  Finland
Welterweight (−67 kg) details	Zygmunt Chychla  Poland	Sergei Scherbakov  Soviet Union	Günther Heidemann  Germany
			Victor Jörgensen  Denmark
Light middleweight (−71 kg) details	László Papp  Hungary	Theunis van Schalkwyk  South Africa	Boris Tishin  Soviet Union
			Eladio Herrera  Argentina
Middleweight (−75 kg) details	Floyd Patterson  United States	Vasile Tiță  Romania	Boris Nikolov  Bulgaria
			Stig Sjölin  Sweden
Light heavyweight (−81 kg) details	Norvel Lee  United States	Antonio Pacenza  Argentina	Anatoly Perov  Soviet Union
			Harry Siljander  Finland
Heavyweight (+81 kg) details	Ed Sanders  United States	Ingemar Johansson  Sweden	Ilkka Koski  Finland
			Andries Nieman  South Africa

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	5	0	0	5
2	Italy (ITA)	1	1	1	3
3	Poland (POL)	1	1	0	2
4	Finland (FIN)	1	0	4	5
5	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	0	1
	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	0	1
7	Soviet Union (URS)	0	2	4	6
8	South Africa (RSA)	0	1	3	4
9	Argentina (ARG)	0	1	1	2
	Germany (GER)	0	1	1	2
	Romania (ROU)	0	1	1	2
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	1	2
13	Ireland (IRL)	0	1	0	1
14	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 entries)		10	10	20	40

Participating nations

•  Argentina (10)
•  Australia (5)
•  Austria (4)
•  Belgium (5)
•  Brazil (6)
•  Bulgaria (4)
•  Burma (3)
•  Canada (7)
•  Ceylon (2)
•  Czechoslovakia (5)
•  Denmark (5)
•  Egypt (7)
•  Finland (10)
•  France (10)
•  Germany (9)
•  Great Britain (10)
•  Hungary (9)
•  India (4)
•  Iran (6)
•  Ireland (8)
•  Italy (10)
•  Japan (2)
•  South Korea (4)
•  Lebanon (1)
•  Luxembourg (4)
•  Mexico (3)
•  Netherlands (5)
•  Norway (4)
•  Pakistan (4)
•  Philippines (5)
•  Poland (10)
•  Puerto Rico (3)
•  Romania (10)
•  Saar (3)
•  South Africa (9)
•  Soviet Union (10)
•  Sweden (8)
•  Switzerland (6)
•  United States (10)
•  Uruguay (2)
•  Venezuela (5)
•  Vietnam (2)
•  Yugoslavia (3)