Jim McCourt

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{{MedalBronze| 1964 Tokyo | Lightweight}}

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{{MedalBronze| 1965 East Berlin|Lightweight}}

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{{MedalGold| 1966 Kingston | Light Welterweight}}

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James Vincent McCourt (24 January 1944 – 19 June 2023) was an Irish boxer from Belfast, Northern Ireland.

McCourt won a bronze medal for Ireland in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in the lightweight division. He lost a hotly disputed 3–2 decision to Russian Velikton Barannikov in the semi-final.John Haughey, [https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/65964737 'Jim McCourt: 1964 Olympic boxing medallist and Commonwealth Games champion dies']. BBC Sport, 20 June 2023, retrieved 20 June 2023 Shortly after the games, McCourt defeated Olympic champion Józef Grudzień of Poland. A year later, he repeated his bronze medal performance at the 1965 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Berlin in the same grade. In 1966, McCourt won a gold medal, representing Northern Ireland, at the Commonwealth Games in Kingston in the Light Welterweight division. McCourt was rated the number one amateur boxer in the world for four years. A master of defence and counter punching, he was inducted in the Irish Amateur Boxing Hall of Fame.