Boxing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Boxing at the 1956 Summer Olympics took place at the West Melbourne Stadium. A total number of 164 competitors entered from 35 nations, of whom 161 from 34 nations weighed-in and boxing was held eight nights and five afternoons. The boxing schedule began on 23 November and ended on 1 December. Ten boxing events (all men's individual) were contested.^[1]

Boxing at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Dates	23 November-1 December 1956
Competitors	164 from 35 nations
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Medal summary

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (−51 kg) details	Terence Spinks  Great Britain	Mircea Dobrescu  Romania	John Caldwell  Ireland
			René Libeer  France
Bantamweight (−54 kg) details	Wolfgang Behrendt  United Team of Germany	Song Soon-Chun  South Korea	Claudio Barrientos  Chile
			Frederick Gilroy  Ireland
Featherweight (−57 kg) details	Vladimir Safronov  Soviet Union	Thomas Nicholls  Great Britain	Henryk Niedźwiedzki  Poland
			Pentti Hämäläinen  Finland
Lightweight (−60 kg) details	Richard McTaggart  Great Britain	Harry Kurschat  United Team of Germany	Anatoly Lagetko  Soviet Union
			Anthony Byrne  Ireland
Light welterweight (−63.5 kg) details	Vladimir Yengibaryan  Soviet Union	Franco Nenci  Italy	Constantin Dumitrescu  Romania
			Henry Loubscher  South Africa
Welterweight (−67 kg) details	Nicolae Linca  Romania	Fred Tiedt  Ireland	Kevin Hogarth  Australia
			Nicholas Gargano  Great Britain
Light middleweight (−71 kg) details	László Papp  Hungary	José Torres  United States	John McCormack  Great Britain
			Zbigniew Pietrzykowski  Poland
Middleweight (−75 kg) details	Gennadi Schatkov  Soviet Union	Ramón Tapia  Chile	Gilbert Chapron  France
			Victor Zalazar  Argentina
Light heavyweight (−81 kg) details	James Boyd  United States	Gheorghe Negrea  Romania	Carlos Lucas  Chile
			Romualdas Murauskas  Soviet Union
Heavyweight (+81 kg) details	Pete Rademacher  United States	Lev Mukhin  Soviet Union	Daniel Bekker  South Africa
			Giacomo Bozzano  Italy

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	3	1	2	6
2	Great Britain (GBR)	2	1	2	5
3	United States (USA)	2	1	0	3
4	Romania (ROU)	1	2	1	4
5	United Team of Germany (EUA)	1	1	0	2
6	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	0	1
7	Ireland (IRL)	0	1	3	4
8	Chile (CHI)	0	1	2	3
9	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
10	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	0	1
11	France (FRA)	0	0	2	2
	Poland (POL)	0	0	2	2
	South Africa (RSA)	0	0	2	2
14	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		10	10	20	40

Participating nations

•  Argentina (10)
•  Australia (9)
•  Austria (1)
•  Belgium (1)
•  Brazil (2)
•  Bulgaria (2)
•  Burma (4)
•  Canada (6)
•  Ceylon (2)
•  Chile (3)
•  Chinese Taipei (1)
•  Czechoslovakia (5)
•  Denmark (3)
•  Fiji (2)
•  Finland (3)
•  France (6)
•  United Team of Germany (8)
•  Great Britain (7)
•  Hungary (2)
•  Ireland (7)
•  Italy (8)
•  Japan (3)
•  South Korea (5)
•  New Zealand (2)
•  Pakistan (6)
•  Philippines (5)
•  Poland (9)
•  Romania (4)
•  South Africa (7)
•  Soviet Union (10)
•  Sweden (3)
•  Thailand (5)
•  United States (8)
•  Venezuela (2)