Terry Milligan

"Terence Milligan" redirects here. For the British-Irish writer, see Spike Milligan.

Terry Milligan

Personal information
Nationality	British (Northern Irish)
Born	7 March 1930 Belfast, Northern Ireland
Died	20 June 2003(2003-06-20) (aged 73) Belfast, Northern Ireland
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Event	Middleweight
Medal record Men's Boxing Representing Northern Ireland British Empire and Commonwealth Games Gold medal – first place 1958 Cardiff Middleweight

Terry Milligan (7 March 1930 – 20 June 2003) was a boxer from Northern Ireland who competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, where he reached the quarter-finals.

Biography

Milligan was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and was a member of the Short and Harland Boxing Club of Belfast and won the 1951 Irish welterweight title.

In 1951 he won a bronze medal at the European Amateur Boxing Championships in Milan, in 1953 a silver medal at the European Amateur Boxing Championships in Warsaw.

He was selected for the 1958 Northern Irish team for the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, where he competed in the 75kg middleweight category and won the gold medal.

Terry Milligan had a wife and nine children.