1953 European Amateur Boxing Championships

The 1953 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Warsaw, Poland from May 17 to May 24. The tenth edition of the bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA. There were 117 fighters from 19 countries participating.

Medal winners

Games Gold Silver Bronze
Flyweight
( 51 kilograms)
Henryk Kukier
Poland
František Majdloch
Czechoslovakia
Giacomo Spano
Italy

Anatoli Bulakov
Soviet Union

Bantamweight
( 54 kilograms)
Zenon Stefaniuk
Poland
Boris Stepanov
Soviet Union
John McNally
Ireland

Nicolae Mindreanu
Romania

Featherweight
( 57 kilograms)
Józef Kruża
Poland
Aleksander Zasukhin
Soviet Union
Hans-Peter Mehling
West Germany

Stevan Redli
Yugoslavia

Lightweight
( 60 kilograms)
Vladimir Yengibaryan
Soviet Union
István Juhász
Hungary
Aleksy Antkiewicz
Poland

Pentti Niinivuori
Finland

Light Welterweight
( 63.5 kilograms)
Leszek Drogosz
Poland
Terence Milligan
Ireland
Francisc Ambrus
Romania

Béla Szakács
Hungary

Welterweight
( 67 kilograms)
Zygmunt Chychła
Poland
Sergei Scherbakov
Soviet Union
Nicolae Linca
Romania

Emile Vleminck
Belgium

Light Middleweight
( 71 kilograms)
Bruce Wells
England
Max Resch
West Germany
Zbigniew Pietrzykowski
Poland

Boris Tishin
Soviet Union

Middleweight
( 75 kilograms)
Dieter Wemhöner
West Germany
Bedřich Koutný
Czechoslovakia
Stig Sjölin
Sweden

Ronald Barton
England

Light Heavyweight
( 81 kilograms)
Ulrich Nitzschke
East Germany
Tadeusz Grzelak
Poland
Yuri Yegorov
Soviet Union

Helmut Pfirrmann
West Germany

Heavyweight
(+ 81 kilograms)
Algirdas Šocikas
Soviet Union
Bogdan Węgrzyniak
Poland
Tomislav Krizmanić
Yugoslavia

Hermann Schreibauer
West Germany

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Poland (POL)5229
2 Soviet Union (URS)2338
3 West Germany (FRG)1135
4 England (ENG)1012
5 East Germany (GDR)1001
6 Czechoslovakia (TCH)0202
7 Hungary (HUN)0112
 Ireland (IRL)0112
9 Romania (ROU)0033
10 Yugoslavia (YUG)0022
11 Belgium (BEL)0011
 Finland (FIN)0011
 Italy (ITA)0011
 Sweden (SWE)0011
Totals (14 nations)10102040


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