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Boxing at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
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Italy dominated boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics, winning three gold medals and seven medals overall. Two of the gold medalists would later become Hall of Fame world champions in professional boxing: American Cassius Clay (later known as Muhammad Ali) and Italian Nino Benvenuti.^[1]

  *   Host nation (Italy)

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy*	3	3	1	7
2	United States	3	0	1	4
3	Poland	1	3	3	7
4	Soviet Union	1	2	2	5
5	Czechoslovakia	1	0	1	2
6	Hungary	1	0	0	1
7	South Africa	0	1	1	2
8	Ghana	0	1	0	1
9	Great Britain	0	0	3	3
10	Australia	0	0	2	2
11	Argentina	0	0	1	1
	Egypt	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
	United Team of Germany	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		10	10	20	40

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