Glyn Waters
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British (Welsh) |
| Born | April 1937 Newport, Wales |
| Died | 2013 Stratford, London, England |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Boxing |
Event | Middleweight |
| Club | Newport Sporting Club |
Glyn Mostyn Paul Waters (April 1937–2013) was a boxer who competed for Wales at the Commonwealth Games.
Biography
Waters boxed out of the Newport Sporting Club[1] and was the 1957 Welsh ABA champion[2] at light-heavyweight.[3]
Waters stepped up to middleweight and won the middleweight championship of Wales in 1958.[4]
An electrician by trade, he carried a nose injury into the Empire Games but successfully passed the doctors check at weigh-in to compete. Wales had already lost one of their boxers (Cedric Williams) to injury before the Games started.[5]
He subsequently represented the 1958 Welsh team[6] for the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales,[7] where competed in the middleweight category.[8][9]
Waters was from a boxing family, his father Walt Waters was the 1921 Welsh middleweight champion and his brother Colin Waters was a four-times middleweight champion of Wales in 1957, 1959, 1960 and 1963.[10][4]
References
- ^ "Nine Welsh internationals". Bristol Evening Post. 7 January 1958. p. 20. Retrieved 23 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "WABA Light Heavyweight" (PDF). Welsh Boxing. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
- ^ "Amateurs clash at Merthyr". Western Mail. 27 February 1958. p. 10. Retrieved 23 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ a b "WABA Middleweight" (PDF). Welsh Boxing. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
- ^ "Final Check on Nose". Western Mail. 5 June 1958. p. 12. Retrieved 22 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Welsh Boxing Team for Empire Games". Birmingham Daily Post. 5 June 1958. p. 25. Retrieved 23 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "The Fighting Welsh". Western Mail. 18 July 1958. p. 30. Retrieved 23 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Wales Cardiff 1958". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 18 October 2021. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
- ^ "Commonwealth (British Empire) Games - Cardiff, Wales - July 18-26 1958". Amateur Boxing. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
- ^ "The Fighting Welsh". Western Mail. 18 July 1958. p. 30. Retrieved 23 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.