Adrian Blair

Adrian Blair (21 December 1943 – 2008) was an Indigenous Australian boxer. He is known for being one of the first three Indigenous athletes to be included in the Australian Olympic team ever, competing in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics in Japan.

Biography Adrian Blair was born on 21 December 1943 in Cherbourg, Queensland.

During his boxing career, he was 166 cm in height and weighed .

He competed at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia. His first round was a bye, after which he won his bout against Taiwanese boxer Chee-Chu Wang by knockout, less than two minutes into the fight. He lost his third round on points to Soviet boxer Vilikton Barannikov, who went on to win the silver medal.

Blair was one of three Indigenous Australian athletes to be the first to be selected for the Australian Olympic team, along with fellow boxer Frank Roberts and basketballer Michael Ah Matt.

He was inducted into the Aboriginal and Islander Sports Hall of Fame.