| Biography | Terence "Terry" George Spinks MBE (28 February 1938 26 April 2012) was a boxer from Great Britain, who won the gold medal in the flyweight division ( 51 kg) at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. In the final he defeated Mircea Dobrescu of Romania on points. He was also British featherweight champion from 1960 to 1961.
He was an apprentice jockey, before finding boxing more lucrative. |