Editing Alan Minter (section)

== Amateur career ==
Minter took part at the 1970 European Junior Championships at the middleweight division, but in the very first fight he was stopped in the 2-nd round by [[Vyacheslav Lemeshev]] ([[Soviet Union|USSR]]).<ref>{{cite web | url=http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/EuropeanJuniorChampionships1970.html | title=1.European Junior Championships - Miskolc, Hungary - November 8-14 1970 }}</ref> Because Minter was the 1971 [[Amateur Boxing Association of England]] Middleweight Champion, he was selected to box for UK in the Olympics 1972.<ref name="SR"/> He won a bronze medal at the 1972 [[Munich]] [[Olympic Games]] in the [[light-middleweight]] classification, losing in the semifinal to [[Dieter Kottysch]] of West Germany by a 3-2 marginal decision which was hotly disputed.<ref name="SR">{{cite web| url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mi/alan-minter-1.html  |title=Alan Minter Olympic Results|publisher=sports-reference.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418041710/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mi/alan-minter-1.html|access-date=18 December 2018|archive-date=18 April 2020}}</ref> Kottysch went on to win the gold medal.<ref name="SR"/>

=== 1972 Olympic results ===
Minter's results at the 1972 Munich Olympics are as follows:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olympedia.org/results/24299|title=Light-Middleweight (≤71 kilograms), Men|work=Olympedia|access-date=10 September 2020}}</ref>

* Round of 64: bye
* Round of 32: Defeated [[Reggie Ford (boxer)|Reggie Ford]] (Guyana) by second-round knockout
* Round of 16: Defeated [[Valeri Tregubov]] (Soviet Union) by decision, 5–0
* Quarterfinal: Defeated [[Loucif Hamani]] (Algeria) by decision, 4–1
* Semifinal: Lost to [[Dieter Kottysch]] (West Germany) by decision, 2–3 (was awarded bronze medal)<ref name="ilf">{{cite web| url=https://www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/sport/boxing/british-olympians-who-conquered-boxing-world-1-6593621  |title=Boxing; British Olympians who challenged and conquered the world|work=Ilford Recorder |publisher=ilfordrecorder.co.uk |date=6 April 2020 |last1=Kempson |first1=Chris }}</ref>