William Meyers (23 July 19437 May 2014) was a South African boxer who won a bronze medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome fighting as a featherweight.Profile: William Meyers sports.reference.com (Retrieved on 13 December 2008)
Meyers, who was only 17 during the Rome Olympics, was the youngest South African boxer ever to win an Olympic medal. He never turned professional.
1960 Olympic results Below is the record of William Meyers, a South African featherweight boxer who competed at the 1960 Rome Olympics:
Round of 32: defeated Than Tun (Burma) by decision, 5-0 Round of 16: defeated Hsu Teng-yun (Chinese Taipei) by a third-round knockout Quarterfinal: defeated Constantin Gheorghiu (Romania) by decision, 5-0 Semifinal: lost to Jerzy Adamski (Poland) by decision, 1-4 (was awarded bronze medal)
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