George McKenzie (22 September 1900 – 5 April 1941) was a Scottish
bantamweight
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who competed in the 1920s. His brother
James MacKenzie, a flyweight, won Olympic silver in 1924 in Paris. He was born in
Leith
Leith (; gd, Lìte) is a port area in the north of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, founded at the mouth of the Water of Leith. In 2021, it was ranked by '' Time Out'' as one of the top five neighbourhoods to live in the world.
The earliest ...
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Amateur career
McKenzie won the 1920
Amateur Boxing Association
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British
bantamweight title, when boxing out of the United Scottish ABC. Later that year, he won a
bronze medal
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in
Boxing at the 1920 Summer Olympics
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Participating nations
A total of 116 boxers from 12 nation ...
losing against boxer
Clarence Walker in the semi-finals.
Olympic results
Below is the record of George McKenzie, a British bantamweight boxer who competed at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics:
* Round of 16: bye
* Quarterfinal: defeated
John Koss (Norway)
* Semifinal: lost to
Clarence Walker (South Africa)
* Bronze Medal Bout: defeated Henri Hebrants (Belgium)
Pro career
He fought professionally from 1922 to 1929 and is credited with a record of 36 - 7 - 2.
[British Boxing Year Book 1988]
See also
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List of British featherweight boxing champions
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1900 births
1941 deaths
Bantamweight boxers
Scottish male boxers
Olympic boxers of Great Britain
Boxers at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
People from Leith
Place of birth missing
Olympic medalists in boxing
Scottish Olympic medallists
Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
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