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

Boxing at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Flyweight	men
Bantamweight	men
Featherweight	men
Lightweight	men
Light welterweight	men
Welterweight	men
Light middleweight	men
Middleweight	men
Light heavyweight	men
Heavyweight	men

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]

Medal summary

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

References

External links

• United States 1956 Olympic Book, Quadrenniel Report United States Olympic Committee
• Official results
• Amateur Boxing