William Meyers

For the member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, see William Frederick Meyers. For other people with a similar name, see William Myers (disambiguation).

William Meyers
Medal record
Men's Boxing
Representing  South Africa
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 1960 Rome Featherweight

William Meyers (23 July 1943 in Johannesburg – 7 May 2014) was a South African boxer who won a bronze medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome fighting as a featherweight.[1][2]

Meyers, who was only 17 during the Rome Olympics, was the youngest South African boxer ever to win an Olympic medal. He never turned professional.

  1. ^ Profile: William Meyers sports.reference.com (Retrieved on 13 December 2008)
  2. ^ "SA's youngest Olympic boxing medalist dies". Fightnews.com. Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 13 May 2014.