Boxing at the 1955 Pan American Games

The Men's Boxing Tournament at the 1955 Pan American Games was held in Mexico City, Mexico, from March 12 to March 26, with the inclusion of two new weight divisions (Light Welterweight and Light Middleweight) to the existing eight.

Boxing at the II Pan American Games
«1951
1959»

Medal winners
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Flyweight
(– 51 kilograms)		 Hilario Correa
Mexico		 Manuel Lugo Vega
Chile		 Ramón Arias
Venezuela
Bantamweight
(– 54 kilograms)		 Salvador Enriquez
Venezuela		 Wardy Yee
United States		 Roberto Lobos
Chile
Featherweight
(– 57 kilograms)		 Oswaldo Cañete
Argentina		 Claudio Barrientos
Chile		 Marcial Galicia
Mexico
Lightweight
(– 60 kilograms)		 Miguel Angel Péndola
Argentina		 Gerardo Clemente
Puerto Rico		 Ricardo Orta
Venezuela
Light Welterweight
(– 63.5 kilograms)		 Juan Carlos Rivero
Argentina		 William Morton
United States		 Celestino Pinto
Brazil
Welterweight
(– 67 kilograms)		 Joseph Dorando
United States		 Antonio Nigri
Argentina		 —
Light Middleweight
(– 71 kilograms)		 Paul Wright
United States		 Raul Tovar
Venezuela		 Alberto Sáenz
Argentina
Middleweight
(– 75 kilograms)		 Orville Pitts
United States		 Miguel Safatle
Chile		 Arnaldo Serra
Argentina
Light Heavyweight
(– 81 kilograms)		 Luis Ingnacio
Brazil		 Antonio Escalante
Argentina		 John Stewart
United States
Heavyweight
(+ 81 kilograms)		 Pablo Alexis Miteff
Argentina		 Adão Waldemar
Brazil		 Norvel Lee
United States

Medal table
Place Nation Total
1  Argentina (ARG) 4 2 2 8
2  United States (USA) 3 2 2 7
3  Venezuela (VEN) 1 1 2 4
4  Brazil (BRA) 1 1 1 3
5  Mexico (MEX) 1 0 1 2
6  Chile (CHI) 0 3 1 4
7  Puerto Rico (PUR) 0 1 0 1
Total 10 10 9 29
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References
  • Amateur Boxing: 1955 Pan American Games
  • Sports 123: Boxing at the Wayback Machine (archived October 7, 2011)
  • Hickok Sports: Pan American Games: Men's Boxing Medalists at the Wayback Machine (archived November 13, 2011)
  • Olderr, Steven (2009). The Pan American Games: A Statistical History, 1951-1999, bilingual edition. McFarland & Company. ISBN 0786443367. ISBN 9780786443369.



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