Boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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In the 1960 Summer Olympics, Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. (later known as Muhammad Ali) won the gold medal in the boxing light heavyweight division for the United States.

Medals

Pos	Country:	Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:	Total:
1	Italy (ITA)	3	3	1	7
2	United States (USA)	3	0	1	4
3	Poland (POL)	1	3	3	7
4	Soviet Union (URS)	1	2	2	5
5	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	0	1
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	1	2
7	Ghana (GHA)	0	1	0	1
	South Africa (RSA)	0	1	1	2
9	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	3	3
10	Australia (AUS)	0	0	2	2
11	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	Egypt (EGY)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
	Germany (EUA)	0	0	1	1

Results

Flyweight (-51 kg)

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Gyula Török, Hungary	Sergei Sivko, Soviet Union	Abdelmoneim El-Guindi, Egypt Kiyoshi Tanabe, Japan

Quarterfinals

• Kiyoshi Tanabe (JPN) def. Mircea Dobrescu (ROU), 4:1

• Sergei Sivko (URS) def. Manfred Homberg (FRG), 5:0

• Gyula Török (HUN) def. Miguel Angel Botta (ARG), 5:0

• Abdelmoneim El-Guindi (EGY) def. Humberto Barrera (USA), 4:1

Semifinals

• Sergei Sivko (URS) def. Kiyoshi Tanabe (JPN), 4:1

• Gyula Török (HUN) def. Abdelmoneim El-Guindi (EGY), 4:1

Final

• Gyula Török (HUN) def. Sergei Sivko (URS), 3:2

Bantamweight (-54kg)

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Oleg Grigoryev, Soviet Union	Primo Zamparini, Italy	Brunon Bendig, Poland Oliver Taylor, Australia

Featherweight (-57kg)

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Francesco Musso, Italy	Jerzy Adamski, Poland	William Meyers, South Africa Jorma Limmonen, Finland

Lightweight (-60kg)

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Kazimierz Paździor, Poland	Sandro Lopopolo, Italy	Abel Laudonio, Argentina Richard McTaggart, Great Britain

Light welterweight (-63.5kg)

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Bohumil Němeček, Czechoslovakia	Clement Quartey, Ghana	Quincey Daniels, United States Marian Kasprzyk, Poland

Welterweight (-67kg)

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Giovanni Benvenuti, Italy	Yuri Radonyak, Soviet Union	Leszek Drogosz, Poland Jimmy Lloyd, Great Britain

Light middleweight (-71kg)

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Wilbert McClure, United States	Carmelo Bossi, Italy	William Fisher, Great Britain Boris Lagutin, Soviet Union

Middleweight (-75kg)

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Eddie Crook, Jr.	Tadeusz Walasek, Poland	Yevgeny Feofanov, Soviet Union Ion Monea, Romania

Light heavyweight (-81kg)

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali), United States	Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, Poland	Anthony Madigan, Australia Giulio Saraudi, Italy

Heavyweight (+ 81kg)

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Francesco de Piccoli, Italy	Daniel Bekker, South Africa	Josef Němec, Czechoslovakia Günter Siegmund, Germany

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