John McCormack (boxer)
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Bronze | Melbourne 1956 | Light Middleweight |
John McCormack (born January 9, 1935 in Glasgow) was a Scottish boxer, who was nicknamed "Cowboy". Although born in Glasgow, his home town was Maryhill. 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.