1953 European Amateur Boxing Championships

The 1953 European Amateur Boxing Championships
European Amateur Boxing Championships
The European Amateur Boxing Championships is the highest competition for boxing amateurs in Europe, organised by the continent's governing body EUBC, which stands for the European Boxing Confederation...

were held in Warsaw, Poland from May 17 to May 24. The 10th 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

Flyweight (– 51 kilograms)	Henryk Kukier Henryk Kukier Henryk Jerzy Kukier was a Polish boxer.He won the gold medal in the Flyweight class at the 1953 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Warsaw, and the bronze medal at the 1955 European Amateur Boxing Championships in West Berlin. Kukier was a Polish champion six times... Poland	František Majdloch Czechoslovakia	Giacomo Spano Italy Anatoli Bulakov Anatoli Bulakov Anatoly Nikolayevich Bulakov was a boxer from the USSR, who won the bronze medal in the flyweight division at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.... Soviet Union
Bantamweight (– 54 kilograms)	Zenon Stefaniuk Zenon Stefaniuk Zenon Stefaniuk was a Polish boxer.He twice won the gold medal at the European Amateur Boxing Championships in the Bantamweight division at Warsaw 1953 and West Berlin 1955... Poland	Boris Stiepanov Soviet Union	John McNally John McNally (boxer) John McNally is a former boxer. McNally is most noted for winning a silver medal for Ireland at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki in the Bantamweight division... 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 Vladimir Yengibaryan Vladimir Nikolaevich Yengibaryan is a former welterweight boxer.Yengibaryan trained at Trudovye Rezervy in Yerevan, Armenia. He was an amateur boxer for the USSR, who won the Light welterweight gold medal at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic games... Soviet Union	István Juhász Hungary	Aleksy Antkiewicz Aleksy Antkiewicz Aleksy Antkiewicz was a Polish boxer. He has won two Olympic medals for Poland: bronze in London 1948 in featherweight division and silver at the next Olympics in Helsinki 1952 in lightweight.He was born in Katlewo, Warmia and died in... Poland Pentti Niinivuori Finland
Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kilograms)	Leszek Drogosz Leszek Drogosz Leszek Drogosz is a retired Polish boxer and actor.He thrice won the gold medal at the European Amateur Boxing Championships in the Light welterweight division at Warsaw 1953 and West Berlin 1955, and in the Welterweight division at Lucerne 1959. He participated in the Summer Olympics in Helsinki... Poland	Terence Milligan Ireland	Francisc Ambrus Romania Béla Szákacs Hungary
Welterweight (– 67 kilograms)	Zygmunt Chychła Poland	Sergei Scherbakov Sergei Scherbakov Sergei Semyonovich Scherbakov was a boxer from the Soviet Union.He competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland, in the welterweight event, where he finished in second place.... Soviet Union	Nicolae Linca Nicolae Linca Nicolae Linca Nicolae Linca Nicolae Linca (1 January 1929 in Cergăul Mare (village now incorporated in the town of Blaj, Alba County, Romania – 27 June 2008 in Feisa, Alba County, Romania) was a Romanian amateur boxer and Romania's first olympic boxing champion.... Romania Emile Vleminck Belgium
Light Middleweight (– 71 kilograms)	Bruce Wells Bruce Wells Bruce Albert Wells was an English amateur boxer, holder of the ABA Light Middleweight and European Amateur Boxing Championship titles... England	Max Resch West Germany	Zbigniew Pietrzykowski Zbigniew Pietrzykowski Zbigniew Pietrzykowski is a retired Polish boxer.Three times he took part in the Olympic Games, every time winning a medal. He won a bronze medal at Melbourne 1956 in the Light middleweight division, after losing in the semi-final to Hungarian László Papp... Poland Boris Tishin Boris Tishin Boris Ivanovich Tishin was a boxer from the Soviet Union.He competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland in the light-middleweight event where he finished in third place.... Soviet Union
Middleweight (– 75 kilograms)	Dieter Wemhöner Dieter Wemhöner Dieter Wemhöner is a former amateur boxing middleweight who won a gold medal at the 1953 European Amateur Boxing Championships. He represented West Germany in the 1952 Olympics, reaching the third round; and the Unified Team of Germany at the 1956 Olympics, reaching the second round.-Reference:... West Germany	Bedřich Koutný Czechoslovakia	Stig Sjölin Stig Sjölin Stig Sjölin is a boxer from Sweden.He competed for Sweden in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland in the middleweight event where he finished in third place.-References:*... 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 Algirdas Šocikas Algirdas Šocikas a retired Soviet Lithuanian boxer.He won twice in the European Amateur Boxing Championships in the Heavyweight division at Warsaw 1953 and West Berlin 1955... Soviet Union	Bogdan Węgrzyniak Poland	Tomislav Krizmanić Yugoslavia Hermann Schreibauer West Germany

Medal table

1	Poland	5	2	2	9
2	Soviet Union	2	3	3	8
3	West Germany	1	1	3	5
4	Kingdom of England	1	0	1	2
5	German Democratic Republic	1	0	0	1
6	Czechoslovakia	0	2	0	2
7	Hungary	0	1	1	2
–	Republic of Ireland	0	1	1	2
9	Romania	0	0	3	3
10	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	0	0	2	2
11	Belgium	0	0	1	1
–	Italy	0	0	1	1
–	Finland	0	0	1	1
–	Sweden	0	0	1	1

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