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| Nationality | British (Northern Irish) | |||||||||||
| Born | 1936 (age 88–89) | |||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||
| Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||
Event | Featherweight | |||||||||||
| Club | Holy Family BC, Belfast | |||||||||||
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John McClory (born 1936) is a former Northern Irish boxer who won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games.
McClory was a member of the Holy Family Boxing Club of Belfast and won the Irish featherweight title in March 1958. [1]
He was selected for the 1958 Northern Irish team [2] for the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, where he competed in the 57kg featherweight category [3] and won the bronze medal. [4]
He was a surprise omission from the Irish team for the a meeting in Dublin in October 1958 [5] but the Belfast storekeeper [6] continued to box at the highest level, representing Ireland against Germany in October 1960. [7] He went on to coach boxers including a spell at the Dominic Savio Boxing club of Belfast in 1963. [8]
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