George Hunter (boxer)
Appearance
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Born | 22 July 1927 | ||||||||||||||
Died | 12 December 2004 | (aged 77)||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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.
External links
- George Hunter's profile at databaseOlympics
- Boxing record for George Hunter from BoxRec (registration required)
- George Hunter's profile at Sports Reference.com
Categories:
- Use dmy dates from November 2012
- 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 English descent
- South African male boxers
- South African Olympic medalist stubs
- South African boxing biography stubs