George Hunter (boxer)
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| Born | 22 July 1927 | |||||||||||||
| Died | 12 December 2004 (aged 77) | |||||||||||||
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George Hunter (22 July 1927 – 12 December 2004) was a boxer from South Africa, who competed in the Light Heavyweight division during his career as an amateur. He was born in Brakpan.
Amateur career[]
Hunter represented his native country at the Summer Olympics of 1948, and was awarded the Val Barker Trophy for Outstanding Boxer at the Olympic Games.
External links[]
- George Hunter's profile at databaseOlympics
- Boxing record for George Hunter from BoxRec
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "George Hunter". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 19 October 2014.
1920–1936: 160–175 lb (72.6–79.4 kg) · 1948: 73–80 kg · 1952–2012: 75–81 kg · 2016–: 76-81 kg | |
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- 1927 births
- 2004 deaths
- Light-heavyweight boxers
- Olympic boxers of South Africa
- Boxers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for South Africa
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- People from Brakpan
- South African people of British descent
- South African male boxers
- White South African people
- Sportspeople from Gauteng
- South African Olympic medalist stubs
- South African boxing biography stubs