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| Nationality | British (Scottish) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 November 1933 Scotland | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||
Event | Bantamweight | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Fauldhouse BC | ||||||||||||||
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John W. Smillie (born 1 November 1933) is a former boxer from Scotland who won a gold medal at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games (now Commonwealth Games).
Smillie became a miner aged 17, working at the Woodmuir Colliery in West Calder. [1] He joined the Fauldhouse Miners Club where he took up boxing. [2]
Boxing out of Faulldhouse BC, he reached the final of the Scottish ABA Championships and was selected to represent Great Britain at the 1952 Summer Olympics, as a reserve to Welshman Dai Dower. [2] He won the ABA bantamweight championship in 1953 [3] and 1954. [4]
He represented the Scottish team [5] at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada, where he won the gold medal in the bantamweight division. [6]
Smillie continued working as a miner [7] but later turned professional and fought 46 bouts from March 1955 to October 1962. [8]
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