Alexander Ireland (boxer)
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Alexander Ramsay "Alex" Ireland (10 April 1901 – 25 January 1966) was a Scottish amateur and professional welter/middleweight boxer of the 1920s and 1930s. He fought under the name of Alex Ireland.
Biography
Ireland won the 1921 Amateur Boxing Association British welterweight title, when boxing out of the United Scottish BC.[1]
He won a silver medal in the welterweight boxing at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium losing to Canadian boxer Bert Schneider in the final, and the Scottish Area welterweight title, the National Sporting Club (NSC) (subsequently known as the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC)) British middleweight title, British Empire middleweight title, and European Boxing Union (EBU) middleweight title. He was a challenger for the Scottish Area middleweight title and his professional fighting weight varied from Script error: No such module "convert"., i.e. welterweight to Script error: No such module "convert"., i.e. middleweight. He was born in Leith.[2]
Olympic games results
1920 (as a welterweight)[3]
- 1st round bye
- Defeated Willy Reichenbach (Switzerland)
- Defeated August Suhr (Denmark)
- Defeated William Clark (United States)
- Lost to Bert Schneider (Canada)
References
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- 1901 births
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- Boxers at the 1920 Summer Olympics
- Date of death missing
- Middleweight boxers
- Olympic boxers for Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain
- Sportspeople from Leith
- Place of death missing
- Scottish male boxers
- Welterweight boxers
- Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
- Scottish Olympic competitors
- Boxers from Edinburgh
- 20th-century Scottish sportsmen