William Meyers
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Representing  South Africa
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1960 Rome | Featherweight |
William Meyers (23 July 1943 in Johannesburg – 7 May 2014) was a South African boxer who won a bronze medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome fighting as a featherweight.[1][2]
Meyers, who was only 17 during the Rome Olympics, was the youngest South African boxer ever to win an Olympic medal. He never turned professional.
1960 Olympic results
[edit]Below is the record of William Meyers, a South African featherweight boxer who competed at the 1960 Rome Olympics:
- Round of 32: defeated Than Tun (Burma) by decision, 5-0
- Round of 16: defeated Hsu Teng-yun (Chinese Taipei) by a third-round knockout
- Quarterfinal: defeated Constantin Gheorghiu (Romania) by decision, 5-0
- Semifinal: lost to Jerzy Adamski (Poland) by decision, 1-4 (was awarded bronze medal)
References
[edit]- ^ Profile: William Meyers sports.reference.com (Retrieved on 13 December 2008)
- ^ "SA's youngest Olympic boxing medalist dies". Fightnews.com. Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
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