1956 Boxing medal counts

                                    Total    Gold   Silver  Bronze
Soviet Union                           6       3       1       2
Romania                                4       1       2       1
United Kingdom (Great Britain)         4       1       1       2
Ireland                                4       0       1       3
Germany                                3       2       1       0
United States                          3       2       1       0
Chile                                  3       0       1       2
Italy                                  2       0       1       1
France                                 2       0       0       2
Poland                                 2       0       0       2
South Africa                           2       0       0       2
Hungary                                1       1       0       0
South Korea                            1       0       1       0
Argentina                              1       0       0       1
Australia                              1       0       0       1
Finland                                1       0       0       1

Medal winners:
      Event                      Gold                       Silver                 Bronze                     
1956  Men's Flyweight            Terence Spinks       GER   Mircea Dobrescu  ROM   John Caldwell           IRL
                                                                                   Rene Libeer             FRA
1956  Men's Bantamweight         Wolfgang Behrendt    GER   Soon-Chung Song  KOR   Frederick Gilroy        IRL
                                                                                   Claudio Barrientos      CHI
1956  Men's Featherweight        Vladimir Safronov    URS   Thomas Nicholls  GBR   Hendryk Niedzwiedzki    POL
                                                                                   Pentti Hamalainen       FIN
1956  Men's Lightweight          Richard McTaggart    GBR   Harry Kurschat   GER   Anthony Byrne           IRL
                                                                                   Anatoli Lagetko         URS
1956  Men's Light-Welterweight   Vladimir Yengibaryan URS   Franco Nenci     ITA   Henry Loubscher         RSA
                                                                                   Constantin Dumitrescu   ROM
1956  Men's Welterweight         Nicolae Lince        ROM   Frederick Tiedt  IRL   Kevin John Hogarth      AUS
                                                                                   Nicholas Gargano        GBR
1956  Men's Light-Middleweight   Laszlo Papp          HUN   Jose Torres      USA   John McCormack          GBR
                                                                                   Zbiegniew Pietrzykowski POL
1956  Men's Middleweight         Gennadiy Schatkov    URS   Ramon Tapia      CHI   Gilbert Chapron         FRA
                                                                                   Victor Zalazar          ARG
1956  Men's Light-Heavyweight    James Felton Boyd    USA   Gherorghe Negrea ROM   Romialdas Murauskas     URS
                                                                                   Carlos Lucas            CHI
1956  Men's Heavyweight          Peter Rademacher     USA   Lev Mukhin       URS   Daniel Bekker           RSA
                                                                                   Giacomo Bozzano         ITA