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Nationality | British (Northern Irish) | |||||||||||
Born | 1939 [1] | |||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||
Event | Bantamweight | |||||||||||
Club | Lisburn BC | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Dickie Hanna (born 1939) is a Northern Irish former boxer who won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games.
Hanna was a member of the Lisburn Boxing Club and won the County Antrim bantamweight title in 1957. [2] He turned down offers to go professional so that he could compete at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales. [3]
He was subsequently selected for the 1958 Northern Irish team [4] where he competed in the 54kg bantamweight category [5] and won the bronze medal. [6]
In 1959, Hanna turned professional and boxed 7 bouts from 1960 to 1963. [7] [8]