Boxing
Men's Flyweight:
- David Dower
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- First Round – Defeated Abdelamid Boutefnouchet of France (3 – 0)
- Second Round – Defeated Leslie Donovan Perera Handunge of Ceylon (3 – 0)
- Third Round – Lost to Anatoli Bulakov of Soviet Union (1 – 2)
Men's Bantamweight:
- Thomas Nicholls
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- First Round – Lost to Pentti Olavi Hämäläinen of Finland (0 – 3)
Men's Featherweight:
- Percival Lewis
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- First Round – Lost to Georghe Ilie of Romania (0 – 3)
Men's Lightweight:
- Frederick Reardon
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- First Round – Defeated Roger Cuche of Switzerland (KO 3R)
- Second Round – Defeated Aleksandr Zasuhin of Soviet Union (0 – 3)
- Third Round – Lost to Aleksy Antkiewicz of Poland (0 – 3)
Men's Light Welterweight:
- Peter Waterman
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- First Round – Defeated Oscar Juan Galardo of Argentina (2 – 1)
- Second Round – Lost to Alexander Grant Webster of South Africa (0 – 3)
Men's Welterweight:
- John Maloney
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- First Round – Lost to Július Torma of Czechoslovakia (1 – 2)
Men's Light Middleweight:
- Bernard Foster
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- First Round – Lost to Petar Stankoff Spassoff of Bulgaria (1 – 2)
Men's Middleweight:
- Terence Gooding
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- First Round – Defeated Moustafa Mohamed Fahim of Egypt (2 – 1)
- Second Round – Lost to Boris Georgiev Nikolov of Bulgaria (2 – 1)
Men's Light Heavyweight:
- Henry Cooper
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- Second Round – Lost to Anatoli Perov of Soviet Union (1 – 2)
Men's Heavyweight:
- Edgar Hearn
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- First Round – Defeated José Victorio Sartor of Argentina (2 – 1)
- Third Round – Lost to Ilkka Rickhard Koski of Finland (0 – 3)
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