1956 Men's Olympic Boxing Medalists
Updated August 28, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
| Class | |
|---|---|
| Flyweight (-112 1/2lb) | Terence Spinks, GER |
| Mircea Dobrescu, ROM | |
| John Caldwell, IRL | |
| René Libeer, FRA | |
| Bantamweight (-119 lb) | Wolfgang Behrendt, GER |
| Soon-Chung Song, KOR | |
| Frederick Gilroy, IRL | |
| Claudio Barrientos, CHI | |
| Featherweight (-126 lb) | Vladimir Safronov, URS |
| Thomas Nicholls, GBR | |
| Hendryk Niedzwiedzki, POL | |
| Pentti Hämäläinen, FIN | |
| Lightweight (-132 lb) | Richard McTaggert, GBR |
| Harry Kurschat, GER | |
| Anthony Byrne, IRL | |
| Anatoli Lagetko, URS | |
| Light-Welterweight (-140 lb) | Vladimir Yengibaryan, URS |
| Franco Nenci, ITA | |
| Henry Loubscher, SAF | |
| Constantin Dumitrescu, ROM | |
| Welterweight (-148 lb) | Nicolae Lince, ROM |
| Frederick Tiedt, IRL | |
| Kevin John Hogarth, AUS | |
| Nicholas Gargano, GBR | |
| Light-Middleweight (-157 lb) | László Papp, HUN |
| José Torres, USA | |
| John McCormack, GBR | |
| Zbiegniew Pietrzykowski, POL | |
| Middleweight (-165 lb) | Gennadiy Schatkov, URS |
| Roman Tapia, CHI | |
| Gilbert Chapron, FRA | |
| Victor Zalazar, ARG | |
| Light-Heavyweight (-178 1/2 lb) | James Felton Boyd, USA |
| Gherorghe Negrea, ROM | |
| Romualdas Murauskas, URS | |
| Carlos Lucas, CHI | |
| Heavyweight (+178 1/2 lb) | Peter Rademacher, USA |
| Lev Mukhin, URS | |
| Daniel Bekker, SAF | |
| Giacomo Bozzano, ITA |
* Disqualified; reinstated as silver medallist in 1982.
| Team Sports | 1956 Olympics | Canoeing |
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