Jackie Pottinger
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Nationality | Wales | |||||||||||||
Born | 1913[1] Cardiff | |||||||||||||
Died | 1979 South Glamorgan | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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John Mitchell Baker Pottinger known as Jackie (1913-1979) was a boxer who competed for Wales.
Boxing career[]
Pottinger won a bronze medal in the flyweight division at the 1934 British Empire Games in London. He lost to Georgie Coyle of New York in the New York Golden Gloves tournament during 1935.
Personal life[]
He was a manufacturer by trade and lived at 97 Ferry Road, Grangetown, Cardiff in 1935.
References[]
- ^ "Births & Baptisms". Free BMD.
Categories:
- 1913 births
- 1979 deaths
- Welsh male boxers
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Wales
- Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing
- Boxers at the 1934 British Empire Games
- Flyweight boxers
- British boxing biography stubs