Tom Imrie
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| Nationality | British (Scottish) | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 June 1947 Edinburgh, Scotland | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | 16 May 2015 (aged 67) Dunfermline, Scotland | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Light-middleweight | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | Buccleuch ABC | |||||||||||||||||
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Tom Imrie (7 June 1947 – 16 May 2015) was a boxer from Scotland who won gold and silver medals at the Commonwealth Games.
Biography
[edit]Imrie boxed out of the Buccleuch Amateur Boxing Club and was the 1965 Scottish welterweight champion at the age of 17.[1]
Imrie represented the Scottish Empire and Commonwealth Games team[2] at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica,[3] participating in the light-middleweight category.[4] He won the silver medal.[5]
Four years later he won the gold medal at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.[6]
He was twice winner of the prestigious ABA light-middleweight title at Wembley in 1966 and 1969.[7][8]
He died in 2015 in Dunfermline, aged 67.[6]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Imrie Is New Welter Champ". Sunday Mail (Glasgow). 21 February 1965. p. 29. Retrieved 7 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "McGregor to captain Scotland's Empire Games team". The Scotsman. 13 June 1966. p. 14. Retrieved 6 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Scotland". Commonwealth Sport. Retrieved 6 December 2025.
- ↑ "Scotland Kingston 1966". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 18 October 2021. Retrieved 7 December 2025.
- ↑ "Coomonwealth Games Medallists - Boxing". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 7 December 2025.
- 1 2 "Obituary: Tom Imrie, boxing champion". The Scotsman. Retrieved 7 December 2025.
- ↑ "Imries's title with dramatic punch". The Scotsman. 30 April 1966. p. 24. Retrieved 7 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Roll of Honour". England Boxing.
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