Davy Larmour

David Larmour (born 2 April 1949) is a former boxer from Northern Ireland who as an amateur won a Commonwealth Games gold medal in 1974 and competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics, and as a professional won the British bantamweight title in 1983.

Amateur career Born in the Shankill Road area of Belfast, Larmour boxed out of the Albert Foundry Boxing Club. He won a bronze medal at flyweight at the 1970 Commonwealth Games. After being beaten in the National Senior final in both 1971 and 1972 by Neil McLaughlin, he won the 1973 Irish flyweight championship with a win over Brendan Dunne.

Larmour represented Northern Ireland at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, beating Chandra Narayanan of India in the flyweight final to take the gold medal.

In October 1978 he successfully challenged for Neil McLaughlin's BBBofC Northern Ireland Area bantamweight title, beating the defending champion on points. He won his next five fights before losing to Steve Sims on points in September 1980.

In March 1981 he faced Dave Smith in a final eliminator for the British title, but lost by a single point. He is commemorated, along with Jimmy Warnock and Tommy Armour, on the 'Shankill Road Boxing' mural on Hopewell Crescent in his native area of Belfast.