Boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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
	United Arab Republic (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	Abdel Moneim 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

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

Semifinals

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

• Gyula Török (HUN) def. Abdel Moneim 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	Richard McTaggart, Great Britain Abel Laudonio, Argentina

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

First round

• Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (POL) def. Carl Crawford (GUA), 5–0
• Petar Spassov (BUL) def. Johnny Ould (GRB), 4–1
• Matti Aho (FIN) def. Colm McCoy (IRL), 4–0–1

Second round

• Gennadiy Shatkov (URS) def. Ray Cillien (LUX), 5–0
• Cassius Clay (USA) def. Yvon Becot (BEL), stoppage – 2nd round
• Anthony Madigan def. Lars-Olof Norling (SVE), 5–0
• Gheorghe Negrea (ROM) def. George Oywello (UGA), 5–0
• Giulio Saraudi (ITA) def. Muhammad Safdar (PAK), 5–0
• Rafael Gargiulo (ARG) def. José Leite (BRA), stoppage – 1st round
• Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (POL) def. Emil Willer (GER), 5–0
• Petar Spassov (BUL) def. Matti Aho (FIN), 5–0

Quarterfinals

• Cassius Clay (USA) def. Gennadiy Shatkov (URS), 5–0
• Anthony Madigan (AUS) def. Gheorghe Negrea (ROM), knockout – 2nd round
• Giulio Saraudi (ITA) def. Rafael Gargiulo (ARG), 5–0
• Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (POL) def. Petar Spassov (BUL), 5–0

Semifinals

• Cassius Clay (USA) def. Anthony Madigan (AUS), 5–0
• Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (POL) def. Giulio Saraudi (ITA), 5–0

Final

• Cassius Clay (USA) def. Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (POL), 5–0

Heavyweight (+ 90kg)

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

References

• Official Olympic Report