Jim McCourt Gets Fight Ready

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Jim McCourt Gets Fight Ready

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Location

Belfast

Year

1966

Date

Production 24/02/1966

Length

01min 53sec

Audio

mute

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

At a Belfast boxing club, Jim McCourt is getting his practice in. Jim had already won a bronze medal for Ireland in the Lightweight competition at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. He would go on to win gold at the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Jamaica. McCourt was rated the number one amateur boxer in the world for four years. 

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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