1955 European Amateur Boxing Championships

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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (– 51 kilograms)	Edgar Basel West Germany	Mircea Dobrescu Romania	Henryk Kukier Poland Wolfgang Behrendt East Germany
Bantamweight (– 54 kilograms)	Zenon Stefaniuk Poland	Boris Stiepanov Soviet Union	Daniel Hellebuyck Belgium Wolfgang Schwarz West Germany
Featherweight (– 57 kilograms)	Tommy Nicholls England	Alexander Zasukhin Soviet Union	Pentti Hamalainen Finland Hans-Peter Mehling West Germany
Lightweight (– 60 kilograms)	Harry Kurschat West Germany	Darweesh Mustafa Egypt	Ilija Lukić Yugoslavia Pentti Rautiainen Finland
Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kilograms)	Leszek Drogosz Poland	Pal Budai Hungary	Vladimir Yengibaryan Soviet Union Hans Petersen Denmark
Welterweight (– 67 kilograms)	Nicky Gargano England	Hippolyte Annex France	Pavle Sovljanski Yugoslavia Nicolae Linca Romania
Light Middleweight (– 71 kilograms)	Zbigniew Pietrzykowski Poland	Karlos Dzhaneryan Soviet Union	Marcel Pigou France Rolf Caroli East Germany
Middleweight (– 75 kilograms)	Gennadi Shatkov Soviet Union	Stig Sjölin Sweden	Dieter Wemhöner West Germany Bedrich Koutny Czechoslovakia
Light Heavyweight (– 81 kilograms)	Erich Schoeppner West Germany	Ulrich Nitzschke East Germany	Julius Torma Czechoslovakia Ottavio Panunzi Italy
Heavyweight (+ 81 kilograms)	Algirdas Šocikas Soviet Union	Horst Witterstein West Germany	Horimir Netuka Czechoslovakia Francis Magnetto France

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	West Germany	3	1	3	7
2	Poland	3	0	1	4
3	Soviet Union	2	3	1	6
4	England	2	0	0	2
5	France	0	1	2	3
–	East Germany	0	1	2	3
7	Romania	0	1	1	2
8	Egypt	0	1	0	1
–	Hungary	0	1	0	1
–	Sweden	0	1	0	1
11	Czechoslovakia	0	0	3	3
12	Finland	0	0	2	2
–	Yugoslavia	0	0	2	2
14	Belgium	0	0	1	1
–	Denmark	0	0	1	1
–	Italy	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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