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.
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Medalists
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flyweight (−51 kg) | Gyula Török Hungary | Sergey Sivko Soviet Union | Abdel Moneim El-Guindi Egypt |
| Kiyoshi Tanabe Japan | |||
| Bantamweight (−54 kg) | Oleg Grigoryev Soviet Union | Primo Zamparini Italy | Oliver Taylor Australia |
| Brunon Bendig Poland | |||
| Featherweight (−57 kg) | Francesco Musso Italy | Jerzy Adamski Poland | Jorma Limmonen Finland |
| William Meyers South Africa | |||
| Lightweight (−60 kg) | Kazimierz Paździor Poland | Sandro Lopopolo Italy | Richard McTaggart Great Britain |
| Abel Laudonio Argentina | |||
| Light welterweight (−64 kg) | Bohumil Němeček Czechoslovakia | Clement Quartey Ghana | Marian Kasprzyk Poland |
| Quincey Daniels United States | |||
| Welterweight (−67 kg) | Nino Benvenuti Italy | Yuri Radonyak Soviet Union | Jimmy Lloyd Great Britain |
| Leszek Drogosz Poland | |||
| Light middleweight (−71 kg) | Wilbert McClure United States | Carmelo Bossi Italy | William Fisher Great Britain |
| Boris Lagutin Soviet Union | |||
| Middleweight (−75 kg) | Eddie Crook, Jr. United States | Tadeusz Walasek Poland | Ion Monea Romania |
| Yevgeny Feofanov Soviet Union | |||
| Light heavyweight (−81 kg) | Cassius Clay United States | Zbigniew Pietrzykowski Poland | Giulio Saraudi Italy |
| Anthony Madigan Australia | |||
| Heavyweight (+81 kg) | Francesco de Piccoli Italy | Daniel Bekker South Africa | Günter Siegmund Germany |
| Josef Němec Czechoslovakia |
Medal table
* Host nation (Italy)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italy* | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 2 | United States | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | Poland | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | Soviet Union | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | Czechoslovakia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | Hungary | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | South Africa | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Ghana | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 10 | Australia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | Argentina | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Egypt | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Finland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Romania | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| United Team of Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (16 entries) | 10 | 10 | 20 | 40 | |
Participating nations
- Argentina (10)
- Australia (10)
- Austria (5)
- Belgium (4)
- Brazil (5)
- Bulgaria (6)
- Burma (3)
- Canada (4)
- Ceylon (2)
- Chile (3)
- Cuba (1)
- Czechoslovakia (3)
- Denmark (5)
- Egypt (1)
- Finland (7)
- Formosa (2)
- France (8)
- United Team of Germany (10)
- Ghana (6)
- Great Britain (10)
- Greece (2)
- Guyana (1)
- Hungary (6)
- Indonesia (3)
- Iran (4)
- Iraq (2)
- Ireland (10)
- Italy (10)
- Japan (5)
- South Korea (6)
- Luxembourg (5)
- Mexico (3)
- Morocco (7)
- Netherlands (3)
- Nigeria (4)
- Norway (2)
- Pakistan (4)
- Philippines (1)
- Poland (10)
- Rhodesia (4)
- Romania (9)
- South Africa (8)
- Soviet Union (10)
- Spain (8)
- Sudan (3)
- Sweden (2)
- Switzerland (6)
- Thailand (3)
- Tunisia (5)
- Uganda (6)
- United Arab Republic (3)
- United States (10)
- Uruguay (3)
- Venezuela (3)
- Yugoslavia (4)
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