Tributes have been paid to Dick McTaggart, the only Scottish boxer to win an Olympic gold medal, who has died aged 89.

Heralded as one of the greatest boxers the country has ever produced, the Dundonian boasted a remarkable 610 wins from 634 ...

Dick McTaggart from Dundee scooped gold at the Olympics in Melbourne, Australia in 1956 and is the only Scot to do so in ...

The right-handed southpaw was the flagbearer for the British team at the 1960 Olympics in Rome ... many years coaching the British Olympic and Scottish boxing squads. McTaggart met his wife ...

But on September 5 1960 at the Palazzo dello Sport stadium, Clay etched his name in Olympic history ... There were still doubts from the boxing press that Ali could win gold in Rome, but there ...

ONE of Scotland’s greatest ever boxers, Dick McTaggart, has passed away at the age of 89. The Dundonian was just 21 when he ...

Includes a photo of McClure with his fellow American 1960 Olympic boxing champions, Cassius Clay and Eddie Crook, signed and inscribed in gold ink by McClure. An absolutely remarkable Olympic ...

Scottish boxing icon Dick McTaggart has died aged 89. The Dundee-born legendary athlete passed away in the early hours of Sunday, March 9, 2025. A family statement provided to The Courier read: “In ...