Terence Spinks
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Gold | Melbourne 1956 | Flyweight |
Terence ("Terry") George Spinks MBE (born February 28, 1938) is a former boxer from Great Britain, who won the gold medal in the flyweight division (– 51 kg) at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. In the final he defeated Mircea Dobrescu of Romania on points. Spinks had 200 amateur fights and 49 professional bouts of which he won 41. He received the MBE in the 2002 New Years Honours List.