Dick Barton (boxer)

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Dick Barton
Medal record
Men's Boxing
Representing  South Africa
British Empire Games
Silver medal – second place 1934 London Welterweight

Richard Walter Barton (22 November 1911 – 29 June 1990) was a South African boxer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.

He was born in

Germiston and died in Johannesburg
.

In 1932 he was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the

welterweight class after losing his bout to the upcoming gold medalist Edward Flynn
.

At the 1934 Empire Games he won the silver medal in the welterweight class after losing the final to Dave McCleave.

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