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 Szákacs 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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Poland	5	2	2	9
2	Soviet Union	2	3	3	8
3	West Germany	1	1	3	5
4	England	1	0	1	2
5	East Germany	1	0	0	1
6	Czechoslovakia	0	2	0	2
7	Hungary	0	1	1	2
–	Ireland	0	1	1	2
9	Romania	0	0	3	3
10	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

External links

European Amateur Boxing Championships

Men's	Stockholm 1925 Berlin 1927 Budapest 1930 Budapest 1934 Milan 1937 Dublin 1939 Breslau 1942 Dublin 1947 Oslo 1949 Milan 1951 Warsaw 1953 West Berlin 1955 Prague 1957 Luzern 1959 Belgrade 1961 Moscow 1963 East Berlin 1965 Rome 1967 Bucharest 1969 Madrid 1971 Belgrade 1973 Katowice 1975 Halle 1977 Cologne 1979 Tampere 1981 Varna 1983 Budapest 1985 Torino 1987 Athens 1989 Gothenburg 1991 Bursa 1993 Vejle 1996 Minsk 1998 Tampere 2000 Perm 2002 Pula 2004 Plovdiv 2006 Liverpool 2008 Moscow 2010 Ankara 2011 Minsk 2013 Samokov 2015

Women's	St.Amand-les-Eaux 2001 Pecs 2003 Riccione 2004 Tonsberg 2005 Warsaw 2006 Vejle 2007 Mykolaiv 2009 Rotterdam 2011 Bucharest 2014

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