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1953 European Amateur Boxing Championships

Host city	Warsaw
Country	Poland
Nations	19
Athletes	117
Dates	17–24 May

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 Szakács 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 (POL)	5	2	2	9
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	3	3	8
3	West Germany (FRG)	1	1	3	5
4	England (ENG)	1	0	1	2
5	East Germany (GDR)	1	0	0	1
6	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	2	0	2
7	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	1	2
	Ireland (IRL)	0	1	1	2
9	Romania (ROU)	0	0	3	3
10	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	0	2	2
11	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		10	10	20	40

External links

• Results
• EABA Boxing
• Amateur Boxing