Alex Lyons
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| Nationality | British (Scottish) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | C.1903 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||
Event | Featherweight | ||||||||||||||
| Club | L.M.S. Rovers | ||||||||||||||
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Alex Lyons (c.1903 – date of death unknown) was a boxer who competed for Scotland and won a bronze medal at the British Empire Games.[1]
Biography
Lyons was best known for representing Scotland at the 1930 British Empire Games, where he won the bronze medal in the featherweight division at the 1930 British Empire Games in Hamilton, losing to eventual gold medallist Freddie Meachem in the semi-final.[2] At the time of the Games he was a fireman by trade and living in Queensferry Street, Oatlands, Glasgow.[3]
He was the Scottish amateur champion and boxed out of the L.M.S. Rovers club in Glasgow (London, Midland and Scottish Railway).[4]
References
- ^ "Alex Lyons". Team Scotland. Retrieved 19 August 2025.
- ^ "Hampson's East Half Mile". South Wales Daily Post. 22 August 1930. Retrieved 19 August 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "UK and Ireland, Outward Passenger Lists 1930 Quebec". Ancestry. Retrieved 21 August 2025.
- ^ "Keen Boxing Bouts". Daily Record. 20 October 1930. Retrieved 19 August 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.