1961 European Amateur Boxing Championships

The 1961 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from 3 to 10 June. The 14th edition of the bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA. There were 146 fighters from 21 countries participating.

Medal winners

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (– 51 kilograms)	Paolo Vacca Italy	Vladimir Stolnikov Soviet Union	Otto Babiasch East Germany Fritz Chervet Switzerland
Bantamweight (– 54 kilograms)	Sergei Sivko Soviet Union	Piotr Gutman Poland	Nicolae Puiu Romania Primo Zamparini Italy
Featherweight (– 57 kilograms)	Francis Taylor England	Aleksei Zasukhin Soviet Union	Constantin Georghiu Romania Karl-Heinz Schulz East Germany
Lightweight (– 60 kilograms)	Richard McTaggart Scotland	Petar Benedek Yugoslavia	János Kajdi Hungary Paul Warwick England
Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kilograms)	Aloizs Tumiņš Soviet Union	Ljubiša Mehović Yugoslavia	Pierre Cosentino Italy Marian Kasprzyk Poland
Welterweight (– 67 kilograms)	Ričardas Tamulis Soviet Union	Max Meier Switzerland	Jean Josselin France Ian McKenzie Scotland
Light Middleweight (– 71 kilograms)	Boris Lagutin Soviet Union	Hans-Dieter Neidel East Germany	Viriu Badea Romania Eric Schichta West Germany
Middleweight (– 75 kilograms)	Tadeusz Walasek Poland	Yevgeny Feofanov Soviet Union	Franz Frauenlob Austria Dragoslav Jakovljevic Yugoslavia
Light Heavyweight (– 81 kilograms)	Giulio Saraudi Italy	Gheorghe Negrea Romania	Jack Bodell England Zdzisław Józefowicz Poland
Heavyweight (+ 81 kilograms)	Andrey Abramov Soviet Union	Benito Penna Italy	Zbigniew Gugniewicz Poland Günter Siegmund East Germany

Medal table

* Host nation (Yugoslavia)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	5	3	0	8
2	Italy (ITA)	2	1	2	5
3	Poland (POL)	1	1	3	5
4	England (ENG)	1	0	2	3
5	Scotland (SCO)	1	0	1	2
6	Yugoslavia (YUG)*	0	2	1	3
7	East Germany (GDR)	0	1	3	4
7	Romania (ROU)	0	1	3	4
9	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	1	2
10	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	West Germany (FRG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 nations)		10	10	20	40

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