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Nationality | British (Scottish) | ||||||||||||||
Born | C.1918 Scotland | ||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||
Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||
Event | Featherweight | ||||||||||||||
Club | Leith Victoria BC | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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James Watson (c.1918) [1] was a boxer who competed for Scotland and won a silver medal at the British Empire Games. [2]
Watson was best known for representing the Scottish team, where he won the silver medal in the featherweight division [3] [4] at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, Australia, losing to gold medallist Barney Henricus in the final. [5]
He boxed out of the Leith Victoria BC. [6]
At the time of the 1938 Games, he was an apprentice dentist and living at 96 Leith Street, Edinburgh. [1]