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Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland
About Jim McCourt
- James Vincent McCourt (born 24 January 1944) is a former Irish boxer from Northern Ireland. McCourt won a bronze medal for the Ireland in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in the lightweight division.
- McCourt lost a controversial 3-2 decision to Russian Velikton Barannikov.
- Shortly after the games, McCourt defeated Olympic champion Józef Grudzien of Poland.
- A year later, he repeated his bronze medal performance at the 1965 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Berlin in the same grade.
- In 1966, McCourt won a gold medal, representing Northern Ireland, at the Commonwealth Games in Kingston in the Light Welterweight division.
- McCourt was rated the number one amateur boxer in the world for four years.
- A master of defence and counter punching, he is inducted in the Irish Amateur Boxing Hall of Fame.
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