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.
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[edit] Medals
| Pos | Country: | Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: | Total: |
| 1 |  Italy |
3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 |  United States |
3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 |  Poland |
1 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 |  USSR |
1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 |  Hungary |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Czechoslovakia |
1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 7 |  Ghana |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 South Africa |
0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 9 |  Great Britain |
0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 10 |  Australia |
0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 |  Japan |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Egypt |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Finland |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Argentina |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Romania |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Germany |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
[edit] Results
[edit] Flyweight (-51kg)
| Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
| Gyula Török, Hungary |
Sergei Sivko, Soviet Union |
 Kiyoshi Tanabe, Japan Abdelmoneim El-Guindi, Egypt |
[edit] Quarterfinals
- Kiyoshi Tanabe (JPN) def. Mircea Dobrescu (ROM), 4:1
- Sergey 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
[edit] Semifinals
- Sergey Sivko (URS) def. Kiyoshi Tanabe (JPN), 4:1
- Gyula Török (HUN) def. Abdelmoneim El-Guindi (EGY), 4:1
[edit] Final
- Gyula Török (HUN) def. Sergey Sivko (URS), 3:2
[edit] Bantamweight (-54kg)
| Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
| Oleg Grigoryev, Soviet Union |
Primo Zamparini, Italy |
 Brunon Bendig, Poland Oliver Taylor, Australia |
[edit] Featherweight (-57kg)
| Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
| Francesco Musso, Italy |
Jerzy Adamski, Poland |
William Meyers, South Africa Jorma Johannes Limmonen, Finland |
[edit] Lightweight (-60kg)
| Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
| Kazimierz Paździor, Poland |
Sandro Lopopolo, Italy |
Abel Ricardo Laudonio, Argentina Richard McTaggart, Great Britain |
[edit] Light welterweight (-63.5kg)
| Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
 Bohumil Nemeček, Czechoslovakia |
Clement Quartey, Ghana |
Quincey Daniels, United States Marian Kasprzyk, Poland |
[edit] Welterweight (-67kg)
| Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
| Giovanni Benvenuti, Italy |
Yuri Radonyak, Soviet Union |
Leszek Drogosz, Poland James Lloyd, Great Britain |
[edit] Light middleweight (-71kg)
| Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
| Wilbert James McClure, United States |
Carmelo Bossi, Italy |
William Fisher, Great Britain Boris Lagutin, Soviet Union |
[edit] Middleweight (-75kg)
| Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
| Edward Crook Jr., United States |
Tadeusz Walasek, Poland |
Yevgeni Feofanov, Soviet Union Ion Monea, Romania |
[edit] Light heavyweight (-81kg)
| Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
| Cassius Clay, United States |
Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, Poland |
Anthony Madigan, Australia Giulio Saraudi, Italy |
[edit] Heavyweight (+ 81kg)
| Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
| Francesco de Piccoli, Italy |
Daniel Bekker, South Africa |
Josef Nemec, Czechoslovakia
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