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Nationality | British (English) | |||||||||||
Born | Camden, London, England | 19 May 1929|||||||||||
Died | 12 July 2001 Blandford, Dorset, England | (aged 72)|||||||||||
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Sport | boxing | |||||||||||
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John Alan Wright (19 May 1929 – 12 July 2001) was a British amateur boxer who won a silver medal in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. He lost in the final to László Papp of Hungary. He was born in London and fought as Johnny Wright.
Wright won the 1948 Amateur Boxing Association British middleweight title, when boxing for the Royal Navy. [1] [2]
Below are the results of Johnny Wright of Great Britain, a middleweight boxer who competed at the 1948 Olympic Games in London.