1959 European Amateur Boxing Championships

The 1959 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Lucerne, Switzerland from May 24 to May 31. The 13th edition of the bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA. There were 180 fighters from 25 countries participating.

Medal winners

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (– 51 kilograms)	Manfred Homberg West Germany	Gyula Török Hungary	Adam McClean Ireland Vladimir Stolnikov Soviet Union
Bantamweight (– 54 kilograms)	Horst Rascher West Germany	Oleg Grigoryev Soviet Union	Zygmunt Zawadzki Poland Miodrag Mitrović Yugoslavia
Featherweight (– 57 kilograms)	Jerzy Adamski Poland	Peter Goschka West Germany	André Juncker France Orhan Tuş Turkey
Lightweight (– 60 kilograms)	Olli Mäki Finland	Demitar Velinov Bulgaria	Ferenc Kellner Hungary Iosif Mihalic Romania
Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kilograms)	Vladimir Yengibaryan Soviet Union	Piero Brandi Italy	Rupert König Austria István Juhász Hungary
Welterweight (– 67 kilograms)	Leszek Drogosz Poland	Carmelo Bossi Italy	Bruno Guse East Germany Harry Perry Ireland
Light Middleweight (– 71 kilograms)	Nino Benvenuti Italy	Henryk Dampc Poland	Dragoslav Jakovljević Yugoslavia Rolf Caroli East Germany
Middleweight (– 75 kilograms)	Gennadi Shatkov Soviet Union	Tadeusz Walasek Poland	Colm McCoy Ireland Harry Scott England
Light Heavyweight (– 81 kilograms)	Zbigniew Pietrzykowski Poland	Gheorghe Negrea Romania	Leonid Senkin Soviet Union Giulio Saraudi Italy
Heavyweight (+ 81 kilograms)	Andrey Abramov Soviet Union	Dave Thomas England	Wladysław Jędrzejewski Poland Josef Němec Czechoslovakia

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Poland	3	2	2	7
2	Soviet Union	3	1	2	6
3	West Germany	2	1	0	3
4	Italy	1	2	1	4
5	Finland	1	0	0	1
6	Hungary	0	1	2	3
7	Romania	0	1	1	2
–	England	0	1	1	2
9	Bulgaria	0	1	0	1
10	Ireland	0	0	3	3
11	East Germany	0	0	2	2
–	Yugoslavia	0	0	2	2
13	Austria	0	0	1	1
–	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
–	France	0	0	1	1
–	Turkey	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 Sofia 2016

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