- Richard McTaggart
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Richard McTaggart Personal information Born 15 October 1935 (age 75)
Dundee, ScotlandMedal recordMen’s Boxing Competitor for 
United KingdomOlympic Games Gold 1956 Melbourne Lightweight Bronze 1960 Rome Lightweight Competitor for 
ScotlandCommonwealth Games Gold 1958 Cardiff Lightweight European Amateur Championships Gold 1961 Belgrade Lightweight Richard McTaggart MBE (born 15 October 1935) is a retired boxer from Dundee, Scotland, who competed in the Lightweight division during his career as an amateur.
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Amateur career
McTaggart competed at two Olympic games as a Lightweight (1956, 1960), and one as a Light welterweight (1964). McTaggart won the gold medal in 1956, and was awarded the Val Barker Trophy, as the games outstanding boxer. He won the bronze medal in 1960, and was eliminated in the 3rd round in 1964. McTaggart was also a five-time ABA champion (1956, 1958, 1960, 1963 and 1965). McTaggert purportedly won 610 of his 634 amateur bouts. [1]
Olympic results
1956
- 1st round bye
- Defeated Chandrasena Jayasuriya (Ceylon) points
- Defeated Andre Vairolatto (France) points
- Defeated Anatoly Lagetko (Soviet Union) points
- Defeated Harry Kurschat (United Team of Germany) points
1964
- 1st round bye
- Defeated Julian Rossi (Australia) 5-0
- Lost to Jerzy Kulej (Poland) 1-4
Amateur Accomplishments
- 1954 ABA Featherweight runner-up, losing to Dave Charnley (Fitzroy Lodge ABC) RSC 1 in final
- 1956 ABA Lightweight champion, defeated Eddie Kane (Lochead BC) in final
- 1958 ABA Lightweight champion, defeated Johnny Cooke (Maple Leaf ABC) in final
- 1958 British Commonwealth Lightweight champion
- 1960 ABA Lightweight champion, defeated Cedric Williams (Bargoed & Deri ABC) RSC 2 in final
- 1961 European Lightweight champion
- 1962 ABA Lightweight runner-up, losing to Brian Whelan (Chiswick General ABC) in final
- 1963 ABA Light welterweight champion, defeated Larry O'Connell (Fitzroy Lodge ABC) in final
- 1965 ABA Light welterweight champion, defeated Larry O'Connell (Fitzroy Lodge ABC) in final
Awards and honors
- Member of the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame
- Order of the British Empire - Member (MBE)
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Val Barker Trophy Winners Awarded to the outstanding and most stylistic boxer of each Olympic Games1936: Louis Laurie
USA • 1948: George Hunter 
RSA • 1952: Norvel Lee USA • 1956: Richard McTaggart GBR • 1960: Giovanni Benvenuti 
ITA • 1964: Valeri Popenchenko 
URS • 1968: Philip Waruinge 
KEN • 1972: Teofilo Stevenson 
CUB • 1976: Howard Davis, Jr. 
USA • 1980: Patrizio Oliva ITA • 1984: Paul Gonzales USA • 1988: Roy Jones, Jr. USA • 1992: Roberto Balado CUB • 1996: Vassiliy Jirov 
KAZ • 2000: Oleg Saitov 
RUS • 2004: Bakhtiyar Artayev KAZ • 2008: Vasyl Lomachenko 
UKROlympic Boxing Champions in Men's Lightweight 1904: 125–135 lb (56.7–61.2 kg), 1908: 126–140 lb (57.2–63.5 kg), 1920–1936: 126–135 lb (57.2–61.2 kg), 1948: 58–62 kg 1952–2008: 57–60 kg1904: Harry Spanjer (USA) • 1908: Frederick Grace (GBR) • 1920: Samuel Mosberg (USA) • 1924: Hans Jacob Nielsen (DEN) • 1928: Carlo Orlandi (ITA) • 1932: Lawrence Stevens (RSA) • 1936: Imre Harangi (HUN) • 1948: Gerald Dreyer (RSA) • 1952: Aureliano Bolognesi (ITA) • 1956: Richard McTaggart (GBR) • 1960: Kazimierz Paździor (POL) • 1964: Józef Grudzień (POL) • 1968: Ronnie Harris (USA) • 1972: Jan Szczepański (POL) • 1976: Howard Davis (USA) • 1980: Ángel Herrera (CUB) • 1984: Pernell Whitaker (USA) • 1988: Andreas Zülow (GDR) • 1992: Oscar De La Hoya (USA) • 1996: Hocine Soltani (ALG) • 2000–2004: Mario Kindelán (CUB) • 2008: Aleksei Tishchenko (RUS)
Commonwealth Boxing Champions in Men's Lightweight 1930 – 1938: up to 61 kg • 1950: up to 62 kg • 1954 – 2006: up to 60 kg1930: James Rolland (SCO) • 1934: Leslie Cook (AUS) • 1938: Harry Groves (ENG) • 1950: Ronald Latham (ENG) • 1954: Piet van Staden (RSA) • 1958: Richard McTaggart (SCO) • 1962: Eddie Blay (GHA) • 1966: Anthony Andeh (NGR) • 1970: Abayomi Adeyemi (NGR) • 1974: Ayub Kalule (UGA) • 1978: Gerry Hamill (NIR) • 1982: Hussein Khalili (KEN) • 1986: Asif Dar (CAN) • 1990: Godfrey Nyakana (UGA) • 1994: Michael Strange (CAN) • 1998: Raymond Narh (GHA) • 2002: Jamie Arthur (WAL) • 2006: Frankie Gavin (ENG) • 2010: Tom Stalker (ENG)
Categories:- 1935 births
- Living people
- British boxers
- Lightweight boxers
- Olympic gold medalists for Great Britain
- Olympic boxers of Great Britain
- Boxers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Boxers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Boxers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Scotland
- Boxers at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Scottish sportspeople stubs
- British boxing biography stubs
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