Jimmy Lloyd (boxer)
{{short description|English boxer (1939-2013)}}
{{for|the American rockabilly singer|Jimmie Logsdon}}
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|image=Jimmy Lloyd, Leszek Drogosz, Giovanni Benvenuti, Yuri Radonyak 1960.jpg
|caption=Lloyd (left) at the 1960 Olympics
|birth_date={{birth date|1939|7|5|df=y}}
|birth_place=Liverpool, England
|death_date={{Death date and age|2013|3|22|1939|7|5|df=y}}
|death_place=Skelmersdale, Lancashire, England
|sport=Boxing
|club=Army Boxing Association
|height=173 cm
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{{MedalBronze|1960 Rome | Welterweight}}
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James Lloyd (5 July 1939 – 22 March 2013) was an English boxer. He won a bronze medal in the welterweight division at the 1960 Olympics, losing in the semifinals to the eventual winner Nino Benvenuti.{{Boxrec|id=090739}} He fought under the names Jim Lloyd and Jimmy Lloyd.
Biography
Lloyd won the 1962 Amateur Boxing Association British light-middleweight title, when boxing for the army.{{cite news|url=https://www.englandboxing.org/roll-of-honour/gender/male-championships/|title=Roll of Honour|newspaper=England Boxing|access-date=3 January 2022}}{{cite news |title=Liverpool's A.B.A. title double |work=Liverpool Echo |date=28 April 1962 |access-date=3 January 2022|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000271/19620428/346/0015| via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }} After winning the light middleweight title he turned professional and retired in 1966 with a record of 10 wins, 7 losses and 3 draws.
Lloyd took up boxing aged 9, following his two elder brothers into the sport. In the early 1960s he served and boxed for the British Army and later worked as a mechanic, welder, lorry driver and security guard. In the late 1960's, he co-founded Skelmersdale Amateur Boxing Club with his older brother, Alan Lloyd and for 35 years trained young boxers there. He died of a heart attack, aged 73, and is survived by four children.
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Category:Boxers from Liverpool
Category:Olympic boxers for Great Britain
Category:Boxers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Category:Light-middleweight boxers
Category:Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
Category:Olympic medalists in boxing
Category:Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Category:20th-century English sportsmen
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