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Boxing at the 1958 Asian Games

Boxing competitions

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ2922883 ↗
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The Boxing Tournament at the 1958 Asian Games was held in Korakuen Ice Palace, Tokyo, Japan from 28 to 31 May 1958. A total of 62 boxers from 11 nations competed.

The host nation dominated the competition winning six out of ten gold medals, South Korea, Burma and Republic of China (Taiwan) won the remaining gold medals.

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The public source identifies “Boxing at the 1958 Asian Games” as boxing competitions. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Boxing, Asian and Games.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Boxing, Asian and Games providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Boxing at the 1958 Asian Games” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.