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{{Infobox sportsperson<br />
| name = Dave McCleave<br />
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| nationality = British (English)<br />
| sport = boxing<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1911|12|24|df=y}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=57Apx8FZDNl8h3%2BcITHyng&scan=1|title=Index entry|accessdate=8 January 2022|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}</ref><br />
| birth_place = Battersea, London, England<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1988|5|19|1911|12|24|df=y}}<br />
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{{MedalSport | Men's [[Boxing]]}}<br />
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{{MedalCompetition|[[Commonwealth Games|British Empire Games]]}}<br />
{{MedalGold| [[1934 British Empire Games|1934 London]] | Welterweight}}<br />
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'''David Edward McCleave''' (24 December 1911 &ndash; 19 May 1988) was an English [[Boxing|boxer]] who competed for Great Britain in the [[1932 Summer Olympics]]. He was born in [[Battersea]].<br />
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==Boxing career==<br />
In 1932 he finished fourth in the [[Boxing at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's welterweight|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 (boxer)|Dick Barton]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Boxers at the 1934 British Empire Games: Robey Leibbrandt, Lord David Douglas-Hamilton, Maxie Berger, Dave McCleave, Dick Barton, Albert Barnes (Inglés) Tapa blanda – 1 septiembre 2010|id={{ASIN|115861022X|country=es}}}}</ref><br />
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He won the 1932 and 1934 [[England Boxing|Amateur Boxing Association]] British [[England Boxing National Amateur Championships Welterweight Champions|welterweight titles]] and the 1931 [[England Boxing National Amateur Championships Lightweight Champions|lightweight title]], when boxing out of the Lynn ABC.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.englandboxing.org/roll-of-honour/gender/male-championships/|title=Roll of Honour|publisher=England Boxing|access-date=8 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Boxing New Champions |work=The Scotsman |date=17 March 1932 |access-date=31 December 2021 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19320317/204/0016| via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}</ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
In the 1950s he was the [[Pub landlord|landlord]] of the Union Tavern Pub [[Camberwell New Road]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Former British champion Dave McCleave's Boxing Pub 1957 (Video)|url=https://www.britishboxers.co.uk/2015/02/former-british-champion-dave-mccleaves-boxing-pub-1957-video/|date=2015-02-20|website=British Boxing BBTV|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> It was a boxing pub where David Benjamin Gray was compere and manager with his wife Irene Alice Gray.<br />
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*{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mc/dave-mccleave-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418042630/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mc/dave-mccleave-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18 |title=Dave McCleave}}<br />
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[[Category:Boxers from the London Borough of Wandsworth]]<br />
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[[Category:Olympic boxers for Great Britain]]<br />
[[Category:Boxers at the 1932 Summer Olympics]]<br />
[[Category:Boxers at the 1934 British Empire Games]]<br />
[[Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England]]<br />
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[[Category:People from Battersea]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century English sportsmen]]<br />
[[Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists in boxing]]<br />
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