1957 European Amateur Boxing Championships

The 1957 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Prague, Czechoslovakia, from May 25 to June 2. The 12th edition of the bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA. There were 149 fighters from 21 countries participating.

Medal winners[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (– 51 kilograms)	Manfred Homberg West Germany	Mircea Dobrescu Romania	Wales René Libeer France
Bantamweight (– 54 kilograms)	Oleg Grigoryev Soviet Union	Italy	West Germany Scotland
Featherweight (– 57 kilograms)	Bulgaria	Mario Sitri Italy	Poland Vladimir Safronov Soviet Union
Lightweight (– 60 kilograms)	Kazimierz Paździor Poland	Olli Mäki Finland	Scotland West Germany
Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kilograms)	Vladimir Yengibaryan Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Zygmunt Milewski Poland Ilija Lukić Yugoslavia
Welterweight (– 67 kilograms)	West Germany	Leopold Potesil Austria	Soviet Union Fred Tiedt Ireland
Light Middleweight (– 71 kilograms)	Nino Benvenuti Italy	Tadeusz Walasek Poland	Rolf Caroli East Germany Soviet Union
Middleweight (– 75 kilograms)	Zbigniew Pietrzykowski Poland	Dragoslav Jakovljević Yugoslavia	East Germany West Germany
Light Heavyweight (– 81 kilograms)	Gheorghe Negrea Romania	Bulgaria	Czechoslovakia Hungary
Heavyweight (+ 81 kilograms)	Andrey Abramov Soviet Union	Vasile Mariutan Romania	Josef Němec Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	3	0	3	6
2	Poland (POL)	2	1	2	5
3	West Germany (FRG)	2	0	3	5
4	Italy (ITA)	1	2	0	3
	Romania (ROU)	1	2	0	3
6	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	1	0	2
7	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	2	3
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	1	2	3
9	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	1	0	1
11	East Germany (GDR)	0	0	2	2
	Scotland (SCO)	0	0	2	2
13	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	0	1	1
	Wales (WAL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 nations)		10	10	20	40

External links[]

• Amateur Boxing