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	5	3	0	8
2	Italy	2	1	2	5
3	Poland	1	1	3	5
4	England	1	0	2	3
5	Scotland	1	0	1	2
6	Yugoslavia	0	2	1	3
=7	East Germany	0	1	3	4
=7	Romania	0	1	3	4
9	Switzerland	0	1	1	2
=10	Austria	0	0	1	1
=10	Hungary	0	0	1	1
=10	France	0	0	1	1
=10	West Germany	0	0	1	1
Total		10	10	20	40

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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