John Lyon
Boxing, Boxer
1962 –
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Who is John Lyon?
John Patrick Lyon is a retired boxer from Great Britain. A member of the Greenall St. Helens Amateur Boxing Club he twice competed at the Summer Olympics and won the gold medal in the men's flyweight division at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Lyon won eight English ABA titles, four flyweight and four light-flyweight.
Lyon won the bronze in the 1991 Acropolis Cup, retiring immediately afterwards.
He was awarded an MBE for services to amateur boxing.
Lyon's son Craig Lyon also won the English light-flyweight title, twice.
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