Jim McCourt

Jim McCourt
Medal record
Men’s boxing
Representing  Ireland
Olympic Games
1964 Tokyo Lightweight
European Championships
1965 East Berlin Lightweight
Representing  Northern Ireland
Commonwealth Games
1966 Kingston Light Welterweight

James "Jim" Vincent McCourt (born 24 January 1944) is a former Irish boxer from Northern Ireland.

McCourt won a bronze medal for the Ireland in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo 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 of Poland. A year later, he repeated his bronze medal performance at the 1965 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Berlin in the same grade. In 1966, McCourt won a gold medal, representing Northern Ireland, at the Commonwealth Games in Kingston in the Light Welterweight division. McCourt was rated number one amateur boxer of the world for 4 years. A master of defence and counter punching, he is inducted in the Irish Amateur Boxing Hall of Fame.



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