1955 European Amateur Boxing Championships
| Host city | West Berlin |
|---|---|
| Country | Germany |
| Nations | 24 |
| Athletes | 153 |
| Dates | 27 May–5 June |
The 1955 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in West Berlin, Germany, from May 27 to June 5. The 11th edition of the bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA. There were 153 fighters from 24 countries participating (among them Turkey, Egypt and Saara).
Medal winners
[edit]| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flyweight (– 51 kilograms) |  Edgar BaselWest Germany |  Mircea DobrescuRomania |  Henryk KukierPoland
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| Bantamweight (– 54 kilograms) | Zenon Stefaniuk Poland |  Boris StiepanovSoviet Union |  Daniel HellebuyckBelgium
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| Featherweight (– 57 kilograms) |  Tommy NichollsEngland | Alexander Zasukhin Soviet Union |  Pentti HamalainenFinland
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| Lightweight (– 60 kilograms) | Harry Kurschat West Germany |  Darweesh MustafaEgypt |  Ilija LukićYugoslavia
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| Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kilograms) | Leszek Drogosz Poland |  Pal BudaiHungary | Vladimir Yengibaryan Soviet Union
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| Welterweight (– 67 kilograms) | Nicky Gargano England |  Hippolyte AnnexFrance | Pavle Sovljanski Yugoslavia
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| Light Middleweight (– 71 kilograms) | Zbigniew Pietrzykowski Poland | Karlos Dzhaneryan Soviet Union | Marcel Pigou France
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| Middleweight (– 75 kilograms) | Gennadi Shatkov Soviet Union |  Stig SjölinSweden | Dieter Wemhöner West Germany
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| Light Heavyweight (– 81 kilograms) | Erich Schöppner West Germany |  Ulrich NitzschkeEast Germany |  Július TormaCzechoslovakia
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| Heavyweight (+ 81 kilograms) | Algirdas Šocikas Soviet Union | Horst Witterstein West Germany | Horymír Netuka Czechoslovakia
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Medal table
[edit]| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Germany (FRG) | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 2 | Poland (POL) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | Soviet Union (URS) | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 4 | England (ENG) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | East Germany (GDR) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| France (FRA) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 7 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Egypt (EGY) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 11 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 12 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Yugoslavia (YUG) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 14 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Italy (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (16 entries) | 10 | 10 | 20 | 40 | |