16.Olympic Games - Melbourne, Australia - November 23 - December 1 1956
Preliminaries (1/16)
| 1956-11-23 | 51kg | Vladimir Stolnikov | URS | Edgar Basel | FRG | PTS |
| 1956-11-23 | 51kg | Terry Spinks | GBR | Samuel Harris | PAK | PTS |
| 1956-11-23 | 51kg | Abel Laudonio | ARG | Eddie Ludick | RSA | PTS |
| 1956-11-23 | 54kg | Soon-Chun Song | KOR | Alberto Adem | PHI | PTS |
| 1956-11-23 | 54kg | Robert Bath | AUS | Hemapala Jayasuriya | CEY | PTS |
| 1956-11-23 | 57kg | Pentti Hamalainen | FIN | Martin Smyth | IRL | PTS |
| 1956-11-23 | 57kg | Burhard Schroeter | GDR | Paulino Melendres | PHI | PTS |
| 1956-11-23 | 60kg | Toshihito Ishimaru | JPN | Thomas Donovan | NZL | PTS |
| 1956-11-23 | 60kg | Anatoliy Lagetko | URS | Francisco Nunez | ARG | PTS |
| 1956-11-24 | 63,5kg | Constantin Dumitrescu | ROM | Terrence Oung | BUR | PTS |
| 1956-11-24 | 63,5kg | Hans Petersen | DEN | Carlos Rodriguez | VEN | PTS |
| 1956-11-24 | 63,5kg | Antonio Marcilla | ARG | Chune Pattapongse | THA | KO 1 |
| 1956-11-24 | 63,5kg | Leopold Potesil | AUT | Celestino Pinto | BRA | PTS |
| 1956-11-24 | 63,5kg | Franco Nenci | ITA | Rehmat Gul | PAK | KO 3 |
| 1956-11-24 | 63,5kg | Willi Roth | FRG | Thomas Schuster | FIJ | PTS |
Preliminaries (1/8)
| 1956-11-26 | 51kg | Mircea Dobrescu | ROM | Federico Bonus | PHI | PTS |
| 1956-11-26 | 51kg | Ray Perez | USA | Frantisek Majdloch | CZE | PTS |
| 1956-11-26 | 51kg | Johnny Caldwell | IRL | Yai Shwe | BUR | KO 3 |
| 1956-11-26 | 51kg | Warner Batchelor | AUS | Henryk Kukier | POL | PTS |
| 1956-11-26 | 51kg | Kenji Yonekura | JPN | Phachon Muangson | THA | PTS |
| 1956-11-26 | 51kg | Rene Libeer | FRA | Hyun-Ki Pyo | KOR | PTS |
| 1956-11-26 | 51kg | Vladimir Stolnikov | URS | Salvatore Burruni | ITA | PTS |
| 1956-11-26 | 51kg | Terry Spinks | GBR | Abel Laudonio | ARG | PTS |
| 1956-11-26 | 54kg | Freddie Gilroy | IRL | Boris Stepanov | URS | KO 3 |
| 1956-11-26 | 54kg | Mario Sitri | ITA | Ahmad Rashid | PAK | PTS |
| 1956-11-26 | 54kg | Owen Reilly | GBR | Daniel Hellebuyck | BEL | PTS |
| 1956-11-26 | 54kg | Wolfgang Behrendt | GDR | Henrik Ottesen | DEN | KO 2 |
| 1956-11-26 | 54kg | Claudio Barrientos | CHL | Zenon Stefaniuk | POL | PTS |
| 1956-11-26 | 54kg | Eder Jofre | BRA | Thein Myint | BUR | PTS |
| 1956-11-26 | 54kg | Carmelo Tomaselli | ARG | Vichai Limcharern | THA | PTS |
| 1956-11-26 | 54kg | Soon-Chun Song | KOR | Robert Bath | AUS | PTS |
| 1956-11-27 | 57kg | Henryk Niedwiedzki | POL | Leonard Leisching | RSA | PTS |
| 1956-11-27 | 57kg | Tristan Falfan | ARG | Maurice White | PAK | KO 2 |
| 1956-11-27 | 57kg | Vladimir Safronov | URS | Agostino Cossia | ITA | PTS |
| 1956-11-27 | 57kg | Andre De Souza | FRA | Nontasilp Thayansilp | THA | PTS |
| 1956-11-27 | 57kg | Shinichiro Suzuki | JPN | Yai Chit Wang | BUR | PTS |
| 1956-11-27 | 57kg | Tommy Nicholls | GBR | Noel Hazard | AUS | PTS |
| 1956-11-27 | 57kg | Jan Zachara | CZE | Dong-Hun Chung | KOR | PTS |
| 1956-11-27 | 57kg | Pentti Hamalainen | FIN | Burhard Schroeter | GDR | PTS |
| 1956-11-27 | 60kg | Zygmunt Milewski | POL | Pentti Niinivuori | FIN | PTS |
| 1956-11-27 | 60kg | Harry Kurschat | FRG | Celedonio Espinosa | PHI | PTS |
| 1956-11-27 | 60kg | Luis Molina | USA | William Griffiths | AUS | PTS |
| 1956-11-27 | 60kg | Tony Byrne | IRL | Josef Chovanec | CZE | DQ 3 |
| 1956-11-27 | 60kg | Andre Vairolatto | FRA | Do-Sun Baik | KOR | KO 2 |
| 1956-11-27 | 60kg | Dick McTaggart | GBR | Chandrasena Jayasuriya | CEY | PTS |
| 1956-11-27 | 60kg | Edward Beattie | CAN | Sub Chundakowsolya | THA | PTS |
| 1956-11-27 | 60kg | Anatoliy Lagetko | URS | Toshihito Ishimaru | JPN | PTS |
| 1956-11-27 | 63,5kg | Claude Saluden | FRA | Henry Perry | IRL | PTS |
| 1956-11-27 | 63,5kg | Vladimir Engibaryan | URS | Leszek Drogosz | POL | PTS |
| 1956-11-27 | 63,5kg | Henry Loubscher | RSA | Leslie Mason | CAN | PTS |
| 1956-11-27 | 63,5kg | Joe Shaw | USA | Max Carlos | AUS | PTS |
| 1956-11-27 | 63,5kg | Ei-Kyung Hwang | KOR | Manuel de los Santos | PHI | DQ 2 |
| 1956-11-27 | 63,5kg | Constantin Dumitrescu | ROM | Hans Petersen | DEN | PTS |
| 1956-11-27 | 63,5kg | Antonio Marcilla | ARG | Leopold Potesil | AUT | PTS |
| 1956-11-27 | 63,5kg | Franco Nenci | ITA | Willi Roth | FRG | PTS |
| 1956-11-24 | 67kg | Andras Dori | HUN | Hussain Bait | PAK | PTS |
| 1956-11-24 | 67kg | Kevin Hogarth | AUS | Graham Finlay | NZL | PTS |
| 1956-11-24 | 67kg | Pearce Lane | USA | Enrique Tovar | VEN | PTS |
| 1956-11-24 | 67kg | Fred Tiedt | IRL | Tadeusz Walasek | POL | PTS |
| 1956-11-24 | 67kg | Nicholas Andre | RSA | Shih-Chuan Lee | THA | PTS |
| 1956-11-24 | 67kg | Nicolae Linca | ROM | Hector Hatch | FIJ | PTS |
| 1956-11-24 | 67kg | Francisco Gelaberti | ARG | Walter Kozak | CAN | PTS |
| 1956-11-24 | 67kg | Nicky Gargano | GBR | Eduard Borisov | URS | PTS |
| 1956-11-24 | 71kg | Boris Nikolov | BUL | Muhammad Safdar | PAK | PTS |
| 1956-11-24 | 71kg | Zbigniew Pietrzykowski | POL | Richard Karpov | URS | PTS |
| 1956-11-24 | 71kg | Ulrich Kienast | FRG | James Montgomery | CAN | PTS |
| 1956-11-24 | 71kg | John McCormack | GBR | Alexander Webster | RSA | PTS |
| 1956-11-24 | 71kg | Jose Torres | USA | Peter Read | AUS | PTS |
| 1956-11-24 | 71kg | Franco Scisciani | ITA | Eugene Legrand | FRA | PTS |
| 1956-11-26 | 75kg | Giulio Rinaldi | ITA | Jens Andersen | DEN | PTS |
| 1956-11-26 | 75kg | Gennadiy Shatkov | URS | Ralph Hosack | CAN | PTS |
| 1956-11-26 | 75kg | Dieter Wemhoener | FRG | Ron Redrup | GBR | PTS |
| 1956-11-26 | 75kg | Victor Zalazar | ARG | Stig Sjoelin | SWE | PTS |
| 1956-11-26 | 75kg | Julius Torma | CZE | Howard Richter | AUS | PTS |
| 1956-11-26 | 75kg | Ramon Tapia | CHL | Zbigniew Piórkowski | POL | KO 1 |
| 1956-11-23 | 81kg | Andrzej Wojciechowski | POL | Lennart Risberg | SWE | KO 3 |
| 1956-11-23 | 81kg | Gheorghe Negrea | ROM | Petrus van Vuuren | RSA | PTS |
| 1956-11-23 | 81kg | Ottavio Panunzi | ITA | Gerald Collins | CAN | PTS |
| 1956-11-24 | +81kg | Giacomo Bozzano | ITA | Ilkka Koski | FIN | PTS |
| 1956-11-24 | +81kg | Thorner Ahsman | SWE | Patrick Sharkey | IRL | KO 3 |
| 1956-11-24 | +81kg | Lev Mukhin | URS | Bozhko Lozanov | BUL | KO 3 |
Quarter-finals
| 1956-11-28 | 51kg | Mircea Dobrescu | ROM | Ray Perez | USA | PTS |
| 1956-11-28 | 51kg | Johnny Caldwell | IRL | Warner Batchelor | AUS | PTS |
| 1956-11-28 | 51kg | Rene Libeer | FRA | Kenji Yonekura | JPN | PTS |
| 1956-11-28 | 51kg | Terry Spinks | GBR | Vladimir Stolnikov | URS | PTS |
| 1956-11-28 | 54kg | Freddie Gilroy | IRL | Mario Sitri | ITA | PTS |
| 1956-11-28 | 54kg | Wolfgang Behrendt | GDR | Owen Reilly | GBR | PTS |
| 1956-11-28 | 54kg | Claudio Barrientos | CHL | Eder Jofre | BRA | PTS |
| 1956-11-28 | 54kg | Soon-Chun Song | KOR | Carmelo Tomaselli | ARG | PTS |
| 1956-11-29 | 57kg | Henryk Niedwiedzki | POL | Tristan Falfan | ARG | KO 1 |
| 1956-11-29 | 57kg | Vladimir Safronov | URS | Andre De Souza | FRA | PTS |
| 1956-11-29 | 57kg | Tommy Nicholls | GBR | Shinichiro Suzuki | JPN | PTS |
| 1956-11-29 | 57kg | Pentti Hamalainen | FIN | Jan Zachara | CZE | PTS |
| 1956-11-29 | 60kg | Harry Kurschat | FRG | Zygmunt Milewski | POL | KO 3 |
| 1956-11-29 | 60kg | Tony Byrne | IRL | Luis Molina | USA | PTS |
| 1956-11-29 | 60kg | Dick McTaggart | GBR | Andre Vairolatto | FRA | PTS |
| 1956-11-29 | 60kg | Anatoliy Lagetko | URS | Edward Beattie | CAN | PTS |
| 1956-11-29 | 63,5kg | Vladimir Engibaryan | URS | Claude Saluden | FRA | PTS |
| 1956-11-29 | 63,5kg | Henry Loubscher | RSA | Joe Shaw | USA | PTS |
| 1956-11-29 | 63,5kg | Constantin Dumitrescu | ROM | Ei-Kyung Hwang | KOR | PTS |
| 1956-11-29 | 63,5kg | Franco Nenci | ITA | Antonio Marcilla | ARG | PTS |
| 1956-11-28 | 67kg | Kevin Hogarth | AUS | Andras Dori | HUN | PTS |
| 1956-11-28 | 67kg | Fred Tiedt | IRL | Pearce Lane | USA | PTS |
| 1956-11-28 | 67kg | Nicolae Linca | ROM | Nicholas Andre | RSA | PTS |
| 1956-11-28 | 67kg | Nicky Gargano | GBR | Francisco Gelaberti | ARG | PTS |
| 1956-11-28 | 71kg | Laszlo Papp | HUN | Alberto Saenz | ARG | KO 3 |
| 1956-11-28 | 71kg | Zbigniew Pietrzykowski | POL | Boris Nikolov | BUL | PTS |
| 1956-11-28 | 71kg | John McCormack | GBR | Ulrich Kienast | FRG | KO 3 |
| 1956-11-28 | 71kg | Jose Torres | USA | Franco Scisciani | ITA | PTS |
| 1956-11-29 | 75kg | Gilbert Chapron | FRA | Roger Rouse | USA | PTS |
| 1956-11-29 | 75kg | Gennadiy Shatkov | URS | Giulio Rinaldi | ITA | WO. |
| 1956-11-29 | 75kg | Victor Zalazar | ARG | Dieter Wemhoener | FRG | PTS |
| 1956-11-29 | 75kg | Ramon Tapia | CHL | Julius Torma | CZE | KO 2 |
| 1956-11-29 | 81kg | Romualdas Murauskas | URS | Anthony Madigan | AUS | PTS |
| 1956-11-29 | 81kg | James Boyd | USA | Rodolfo Diaz | ARG | PTS |
| 1956-11-29 | 81kg | Carlos Lucas | CHL | Andrzej Wojciechowski | POL | PTS |
| 1956-11-29 | 81kg | Gheorghe Negrea | ROM | Ottavio Panunzi | ITA | PTS |
| 1956-11-29 | +81kg | Daniel Bekker | RSA | Jose Giorgetti | ARG | KO 1 |
| 1956-11-29 | +81kg | Pete Rademacher | USA | Josef Nemec | CZE | KO 2 |
| 1956-11-29 | +81kg | Giacomo Bozzano | ITA | Ulrich Nitzschke | GDR | PTS |
| 1956-11-29 | +81kg | Lev Mukhin | URS | Thorner Ahsman | SWE | KO 1 |
Semi-finals
| 1956-11-30 | 51kg | Mircea Dobrescu | ROM | Johnny Caldwell | IRL | PTS |
| 1956-11-30 | 51kg | Terry Spinks | GBR | Rene Libeer | FRA | PTS |
| 1956-11-30 | 54kg | Wolfgang Behrendt | GDR | Freddie Gilroy | IRL | PTS |
| 1956-11-30 | 54kg | Soon-Chun Song | KOR | Claudio Barrientos | CHL | PTS |
| 1956-11-30 | 57kg | Vladimir Safronov | URS | Henryk Niedwiedzki | POL | PTS |
| 1956-11-30 | 57kg | Tommy Nicholls | GBR | Pentti Hamalainen | FIN | PTS |
| 1956-11-30 | 60kg | Harry Kurschat | FRG | Tony Byrne | IRL | PTS |
| 1956-11-30 | 60kg | Dick McTaggart | GBR | Anatoliy Lagetko | URS | PTS |
| 1956-11-30 | 63,5kg | Vladimir Engibaryan | URS | Henry Loubscher | RSA | PTS |
| 1956-11-30 | 63,5kg | Franco Nenci | ITA | Constantin Dumitrescu | ROM | PTS |
| 1956-11-30 | 67kg | Fred Tiedt | IRL | Kevin Hogarth | AUS | PTS |
| 1956-11-30 | 67kg | Nicolae Linca | ROM | Nicky Gargano | GBR | PTS |
| 1956-11-30 | 71kg | Laszlo Papp | HUN | Zbigniew Pietrzykowski | POL | PTS |
| 1956-11-30 | 71kg | Jose Torres | USA | John McCormack | GBR | PTS |
| 1956-11-30 | 75kg | Gennadiy Shatkov | URS | Victor Zalazar | ARG | KO 2 |
| 1956-11-30 | 75kg | Ramon Tapia | CHL | Gilbert Chapron | FRA | PTS |
| 1956-11-30 | 81kg | James Boyd | USA | Romualdas Murauskas | URS | PTS |
| 1956-11-30 | 81kg | Gheorghe Negrea | ROM | Carlos Lucas | CHL | PTS |
| 1956-11-30 | +81kg | Pete Rademacher | USA | Daniel Bekker | RSA | KO 3 |
| 1956-11-30 | +81kg | Lev Mukhin | URS | Giacomo Bozzano | ITA | KO 3 |
Finals
| 1956-12-01 | 51kg | Terry Spinks | GBR | Mircea Dobrescu | ROM | PTS |
| 1956-12-01 | 54kg | Wolfgang Behrendt | GDR | Soon-Chun Song | KOR | PTS |
| 1956-12-01 | 57kg | Vladimir Safronov | URS | Tommy Nicholls | GBR | PTS |
| 1956-12-01 | 60kg | Dick McTaggart | GBR | Harry Kurschat | FRG | PTS |
| 1956-12-01 | 63,5kg | Vladimir Engibaryan | URS | Franco Nenci | ITA | PTS |
| 1956-12-01 | 67kg | Nicolae Linca | ROM | Fred Tiedt | IRL | PTS |
| 1956-12-01 | 71kg | Laszlo Papp | HUN | Jose Torres | USA | PTS |
| 1956-12-01 | 75kg | Gennadiy Shatkov | URS | Ramon Tapia | CHL | KO 1 |
| 1956-12-01 | 81kg | James Boyd | USA | Gheorghe Negrea | ROM | PTS |
| 1956-12-01 | +81kg | Pete Rademacher | USA | Lev Mukhin | URS | KO 1 |