John McClory
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| Nationality | British (Northern Irish) | |||||||||||
| Born | 1936 (age 89–90) | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||
Event | Featherweight | |||||||||||
| Club | Holy Family BC, Belfast | |||||||||||
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John McClory (born 1936) is a former Northern Irish boxer who won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games.
Biography
McClory was a member of the Holy Family Boxing Club of Belfast and won the Irish featherweight title in March 1958.[1]
He was selected for the 1958 Northern Irish team[2] for the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, where he competed in the 57kg featherweight category[3] and won the bronze medal.[4]
He was a surprise omission from the Irish team for the a meeting in Dublin in October 1958[5] but the Belfast storekeeper[6] continued to box at the highest level, representing Ireland against Germany in October 1960.[7] He went on to coach boxers including a spell at the Dominic Savio Boxing club of Belfast in 1963.[8]
References
- ^ "The Champions". Belfast Telegraph. 24 March 1958. p. 16. Retrieved 2 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Games boxers for Lisburn". Belfast Telegraph. 27 June 1958. p. 14. Retrieved 2 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Northern Ireland Cardiff 1958". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 18 October 2021. Retrieved 2 October 2025.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2 October 2025.
- ^ "McClory and Hanna not in the Irish team". Belfast Telegraph. 8 October 1958. p. 15. Retrieved 2 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "McClory out to stake International claim". Belfast Telegraph. 15 December 1959. p. 15. Retrieved 2 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "German boxers for Lurgan". Frontier Sentinel. 22 October 1960. p. 9. Retrieved 2 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Boxing's Belting Brothers". Belfast Telegraph. 22 October 1963. p. 14. Retrieved 2 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.