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| Born | 19 February 1947 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Men's sprinting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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George McNeill (born 19 February 1947) is a Scottish former world professional sprint champion and the only man to have won both of the most famous professional footraces in the world – the New Year Sprint (1970) in Scotland and the Australian equivalent – the Stawell Gift (1981). McNeill had previously played professional football in the Scottish Football League for Hibernian, Greenock Morton and Stirling Albion.