Jim McCourt

Name: Jim McCourt
Birth Name: James Vincent McCourt
Hometown: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Birthplace: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Died: 2023-06-20 (Age:79)
Amateur Boxer: Record

Jim McCourt (born: January 24, 1944 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Great Britain) was a former Irish amateur boxer. McCourt represented Ireland at the 1964 and 1968 Olympic Games, winning a bronze medal in the lightweight class at the 1964 Games.

Patrick Myler remembrance: [1]

Olympic Games results

1964 (as a lightweight)

• Defeated Seo Bun-Nam (South Korea) 4-1
• Defeated Ghulam Sarwar (Pakistan) 4-1
• Defeated Domingo Barrera Corpas (Spain) 4-1
• Lost to Vilikton Barannikov (Soviet Union) 2-3

1968 (as a Light welterweight)

• Lost to Gert Puzicha (West Germany) 0-5