- Nicholas Gargano
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Nicholas Gargano Personal information Born 1 November 1934 Medal recordMen's Boxing Olympic Games Competitor for 
United KingdomBronze 1956 Melbourne Welterweight Commonwealth Games Competitor for 
EnglandGold 1954 Vancouver Welterweight Nicholas ("Nick") Gargano (born 1 November 1934) is a former English boxer, who won the bronze medal in the welterweight division (– 67 kg) at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. Two years earlier he captured the gold medal in the same weight category at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.
Amateur career
Gargano was the ABA Welterweight champion in 1954, 1955, and 1956.
Olympic results
- Defeated Eduard Borysov (Soviet Union) points
- Defeated Francisco Gelabert (Argentina) points
- Lost to Nicolae Linca (Romania) points
External links
Commonwealth Boxing Champions in Men's Welterweight 1930 – 2002: up to 67 kg • 2006: up to 69 kg 1930: Leonard Hall (RSA) • 1934: Dave McCleave (ENG) • 1938: Bill Smith (AUS) • 1950: Terry Ratcliffe (ENG) • 1954: Nicholas Gargano (ENG) • 1958: Joseph Greyling (RSA) • 1962: Wallace Coe (NZL) • 1966: Eddie Blay (GHA) • 1970: Emma Ankudey (GHA) • 1974: Mohamed Muruli (UGA) • 1978: Mike McCallum (JAM) • 1982: Chris Pyatt (ENG) • 1986: Darren Dyer (ENG) • 1990: David Defiagbon (NGR) • 1994: Neil Sinclair (NIR) • 1998: Jeremy Molitor (CAN) • 2002: Daniel Geale (AUS) • 2006: Bongani Mwelase (RSA)
Categories:- 1934 births
- Living people
- English boxers
- English people of Italian descent
- Welterweight boxers
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games competitors for England
- Boxers at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Boxers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers of Great Britain
- Olympic bronze medalists for Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- English sportspeople stubs
- British Olympic medalist stubs
- British boxing biography stubs
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