Dave McCleave
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David Edward McCleave (24 December 1911 – 19 May 1988) was an English boxer who competed for Great Britain in the 1932 Summer Olympics. He was born in Battersea.
Boxing career
In 1932 he finished fourth in the welterweight class. He was not able to compete in the bronze medal bout against Bruno Ahlberg. At the 1934 Empire Games he won the gold medal in the welterweight class after winning the final against Dick Barton.[1]
He won the 1932 and 1934 Amateur Boxing Association British welterweight titles and the 1931 lightweight title, when boxing out of the Lynn ABC.[2][3]
Personal life
In the 1950s he was the landlord of the Union Tavern Pub Camberwell New Road.[4] It was a boxing pub where David Benjamin Gray was compere and manager with his wife Irene Alice Gray.
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- 1911 births
- 1988 deaths
- Boxers from the London Borough of Wandsworth
- English male boxers
- Welterweight boxers
- Olympic boxers for Great Britain
- Boxers at the 1932 Summer Olympics
- Boxers at the 1934 British Empire Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- Medallists at the 1934 British Empire Games
- People from Battersea
- 20th-century English sportsmen
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists in boxing