Terry Milligan
Northern Irish boxer (1930–2003)
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Terry Milligan (7 March 1930 – 20 June 2003) was a boxer from Northern Ireland who competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, where he reached the quarter-finals.[1]
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| Nationality | British (Northern Irish) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 March 1930 Belfast, Northern Ireland | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 20 June 2003 (aged 73) Belfast, Northern Ireland | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||
Event | Middleweight | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Biography
Milligan was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and was a member of the Short and Harland Boxing Club of Belfast and won the 1951 Irish welterweight title.[2]
In 1951 he won a bronze medal at the European Amateur Boxing Championships in Milan, in 1953 a silver medal at the European Amateur Boxing Championships in Warsaw.[citation needed]
He was selected for the 1958 Northern Irish team[3] for the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, where he competed in the 75kg middleweight category[4] and won the gold medal.[5]
Terry Milligan had a wife and nine children.[citation needed]
