John McCormack (Scottish boxer)
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John McCormack (born January 9, 1935 in Glasgow) was a Scottish boxer, who was nicknamed "Cowboy". Born in Maryhill, Glasgow.
Amateur career
Known as "Cowboy", he started boxing in 1950 at the age of fifteen, and by 1956 he held the Scottish and A.B.A. Light Middleweight Titles in 1956 as an amateur. He earned the bronze medal in the light middleweight division (– 71 kg) at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. McCormack compiled an amateur record of 103-6 (51 knockouts).
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- Boxers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers of Great Britain
- Scottish boxers
- Light-middleweight boxers
- Sportspeople from Glasgow
- Olympic bronze medalists for Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Scottish Olympic medalists
- Scottish Olympic medalist stubs
- British boxing biography stubs
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