Alexander Ireland (boxer)
{{short description|Scottish boxer}}
{{for|the Scottish journalist|Alexander Ireland (journalist)}}
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{{Use British English|date=March 2018}}
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|nationality=Scottish
|birth_date=10 April 1901
|birth_place=Leith, Scotland
|death_date={{death date and age|1966|1|24|1901|2|11|df=yes}}
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|total=29
|wins=17 (KO 3)
|losses=9 (KO 31)
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{{MedalSport | Men's Boxing}}
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{{MedalCompetition| Olympic Games}}
{{MedalSilver| 1920 Antwerp | Welterweight}}
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Alexander Ramsay "Alex" Ireland (10 April 1901 – 25 January 1966) was a Scottish amateur and professional welter/middleweight boxer of the 1920s and 1930s. He fought under the name of Alex Ireland.
Biography
Ireland won the 1921 Amateur Boxing Association British welterweight title, when boxing out of the United Scottish BC.{{cite web|url=https://www.englandboxing.org/roll-of-honour/gender/male-championships/|title=Roll of Honour|publisher=England Boxing|access-date=3 January 2022}}
He won a silver medal in the welterweight boxing at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium losing to Canadian boxer Bert Schneider in the final, and the Scottish Area welterweight title, the National Sporting Club (NSC) (subsequently known as the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC)) British middleweight title, British Empire middleweight title, and European Boxing Union (EBU) middleweight title. He was a challenger for the Scottish Area middleweight title and his professional fighting weight varied from {{convert|146|lb|kg stlb||abbr=on}}, i.e. welterweight to {{convert|151|lb|kg stlb|1|abbr=on}}, i.e. middleweight. He was born in Leith.{{cite web|url=http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=59336&cat=boxer|title=Statistics at boxrec.com|publisher=boxrec.com|date=31 December 2013|accessdate=1 January 2013}}
=Olympic games results=
1920 (as a welterweight){{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/3427 |title=Alex Ireland |work=Olympedia |access-date=6 August 2021}}
- 1st round bye
- Defeated Willy Reichenbach (Switzerland)
- Defeated August Suhr (Denmark)
- Defeated William Clark (United States)
- Lost to Bert Schneider (Canada)
References
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External links
- {{Team GB|43PYpYGYROczrIsm9kbu3k|Alex Ireland}}
- {{Olympics.com profile|alexander-ireland|Alexander Ireland}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070830002053/http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=IRELAALE01 Alexander Ireland's profile at databaseOlympics]
- [https://archive.today/20130916090655/http://static.boxrec.com/wiki/b/b7/Alex_Ireland.jpg Image – Alex Ireland]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20200418040036/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ir/alex-ireland-1.html Alex Ireland's profile at Sports Reference.com]
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Category:Boxers at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Category:Date of death missing
Category:Olympic boxers for Great Britain
Category:Olympic medalists in boxing
Category:Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain
Category:Sportspeople from Leith
Category:Place of death missing
Category:Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Category:Scottish Olympic competitors
Category:Boxers from Edinburgh
Category:20th-century Scottish sportsmen
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