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Full name | Anthony Byrne | ||||||||||||||
Nickname | Socks | ||||||||||||||
Born | Drogheda, Ireland | 6 July 1930||||||||||||||
Died | 27 April 2013 | (aged 82)||||||||||||||
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Anthony Byrne (6 July 1930 – 27 April 2013), commonly known as Tony Byrne or Socks Byrne,[1] was an amateur boxer. Byrne won a bronze medal for Ireland at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, in the lightweight division.