James Vincent McCourt (born 24 January 1944) is a former Irish
boxer from
Northern Ireland
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.
McCourt won a bronze medal for
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in the
1964 Summer Olympics in
Tokyo
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in the lightweight division. McCourt lost a controversial 3-2 decision to Russian Velikton Barannikov. Shortly after the games, McCourt defeated Olympic champion
Józef Grudzień
Józef Grudzień (1 April 1939 – 17 June 2017) was a Polish boxer.
Grudzień was born 1 April 1939 in Piasek Wielki, Poland, which is near Busko-Zdrój. He won two medals at the Olympic Games: gold in the Lightweight division at Tok ...
of Poland. A year later, he repeated his bronze medal performance at the
1965 European Amateur Boxing Championships in
Berlin
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in the same grade. In 1966, McCourt won a gold medal, representing
Northern Ireland
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, at the
Commonwealth Games
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in
Kingston
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in the Light Welterweight division. McCourt was rated the number one amateur boxer in the world for four years. A master of defence and counter punching, he is inducted in the Irish Amateur Boxing Hall of Fame.
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1944 births
Living people
Male boxers from Northern Ireland
Olympic boxers of Ireland
Boxers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Ireland
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Northern Ireland
Boxers at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Olympic medalists in boxing
Irish male boxers
Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing
Lightweight boxers
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