# Boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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.

## Medalists

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Flyweight (−51 kg) details | Gyula Török Hungary | Sergey Sivko Soviet Union | Abdel Moneim El-Guindi Egypt |
| Flyweight (−51 kg) details | Gyula Török Hungary | Sergey Sivko Soviet Union | Kiyoshi Tanabe Japan |
| Bantamweight (−54 kg) details | Oleg Grigoryev Soviet Union | Primo Zamparini Italy | Oliver Taylor Australia |
| Bantamweight (−54 kg) details | Oleg Grigoryev Soviet Union | Primo Zamparini Italy | Brunon Bendig Poland |
| Featherweight (−57 kg) details | Francesco Musso Italy | Jerzy Adamski Poland | Jorma Limmonen Finland |
| Featherweight (−57 kg) details | Francesco Musso Italy | Jerzy Adamski Poland | William Meyers South Africa |
| Lightweight (−60 kg) details | Kazimierz Paździor Poland | Sandro Lopopolo Italy | Richard McTaggart Great Britain |
| Lightweight (−60 kg) details | Kazimierz Paździor Poland | Sandro Lopopolo Italy | Abel Laudonio Argentina |
| Light welterweight (−64 kg) details | Bohumil Němeček Czechoslovakia | Clement Quartey Ghana | Marian Kasprzyk Poland |
| Light welterweight (−64 kg) details | Bohumil Němeček Czechoslovakia | Clement Quartey Ghana | Quincey Daniels United States |
| Welterweight (−67 kg) details | Nino Benvenuti Italy | Yuri Radonyak Soviet Union | Jimmy Lloyd Great Britain |
| Welterweight (−67 kg) details | Nino Benvenuti Italy | Yuri Radonyak Soviet Union | Leszek Drogosz Poland |
| Light middleweight (−71 kg) details | Wilbert McClure United States | Carmelo Bossi Italy | William Fisher Great Britain |
| Light middleweight (−71 kg) details | Wilbert McClure United States | Carmelo Bossi Italy | Boris Lagutin Soviet Union |
| Middleweight (−75 kg) details | Eddie Crook, Jr. United States | Tadeusz Walasek Poland | Ion Monea Romania |
| Middleweight (−75 kg) details | Eddie Crook, Jr. United States | Tadeusz Walasek Poland | Yevgeny Feofanov Soviet Union |
| Light heavyweight (−81 kg) details | Cassius Clay United States | Zbigniew Pietrzykowski Poland | Giulio Saraudi Italy |
| Light heavyweight (−81 kg) details | Cassius Clay United States | Zbigniew Pietrzykowski Poland | Anthony Madigan Australia |
| Heavyweight (+81 kg) details | Francesco de Piccoli Italy | Daniel Bekker South Africa | Günter Siegmund Germany |
| Heavyweight (+81 kg) details | Francesco de Piccoli Italy | Daniel Bekker South Africa | 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 |
| 11 | Egypt | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | Finland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | Romania | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | United Team of Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (16 entries) | 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)