The 1959 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Lucerne, Switzerland from May 24 to May 31. The 13th edition of the bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA. There were 180 fighters from 25 countries participating.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (– 51 kilograms)	Manfred Homberg West Germany	Gyula Török Hungary	Adam McClean Ireland Vladimir Stolnikov Soviet Union
Bantamweight (– 54 kilograms)	Horst Rascher West Germany	Oleg Grigoryev Soviet Union	Zygmunt Zawadzki Poland Miodrag Mitrović Yugoslavia
Featherweight (– 57 kilograms)	Jerzy Adamski Poland	Peter Goschka West Germany	André Iuncker France Orhan Tuş Turkey
Lightweight (– 60 kilograms)	Olli Mäki Finland	Demitar Velinov Bulgaria	Ferenc Kellner Hungary Iosif Mihalic Romania
Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kilograms)	Vladimir Yengibaryan Soviet Union	Piero Brandi Italy	Rupert König Austria István Juhász Hungary
Welterweight (– 67 kilograms)	Leszek Drogosz Poland	Carmelo Bossi Italy	Bruno Guse East Germany Harry Perry Ireland
Light Middleweight (– 71 kilograms)	Nino Benvenuti Italy	Henryk Dampc Poland	Dragoslav Jakovljević Yugoslavia Rolf Caroli East Germany
Middleweight (– 75 kilograms)	Gennadi Shatkov Soviet Union	Tadeusz Walasek Poland	Colm McCoy Ireland Harry Scott England
Light Heavyweight (– 81 kilograms)	Zbigniew Pietrzykowski Poland	Gheorghe Negrea Romania	Leonid Senkin Soviet Union Giulio Saraudi Italy
Heavyweight (+ 81 kilograms)	Andrey Abramov Soviet Union	Dave Thomas England	Wladysław Jędrzejewski Poland Josef Němec Czechoslovakia

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Poland (POL)	3	2	2	7
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	1	2	6
3	West Germany (FRG)	2	1	0	3
4	Italy (ITA)	1	2	1	4
5	Finland (FIN)	1	0	0	1
6	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	2	3
7	England (ENG)	0	1	1	2
	Romania (ROU)	0	1	1	2
9	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
10	Ireland (IRL)	0	0	3	3
11	East Germany (GDR)	0	0	2	2
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	0	2	2
13	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		10	10	20	40

• Results
• EABA Boxing
• Amateur Boxing