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Jeffrey Dynevor, Adrian Blair and Eddie Barney represented Australia at the 1962 Commonwealth Games held in Perth (Photo: State Library of WA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

July 4, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

A special ceremony will be held later this month to induct one of Cherbourg’s sporting greats, Jeffrey “Mitta” Dynevor, into the Queensland Boxing Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

Mitta (1938-2008) was the first Aboriginal boxer to win a Commonwealth Games gold medal.<\/p>\n

Friends and family from across Queensland will be travelling to the Showmen’s Club at Yatala on July 21 for the induction ceremony.<\/p>\n

The Boxing Hall of Fame was opened in 2006, and since then – boxers and boxing associates – have been inducted every year.<\/p>\n

Other South Burnett boxers already in the Hall of Fame include Arthur Cripps (inducted 2011), Noel “Stumpy” Butwell (2008) and Arthur “Bullet” Bradley (2015).<\/p>\n

Mitta took up boxing in the 1950s and won the Australian Amateur Flyweight title in 1958 and again in 1961 (despite chopping off the top of a finger in a workplace accident at the Cherbourg Joinery).<\/p>\n

In 1962,\u00a0along with fellow Cherbourg boxers Adrian Blair and Eddie Barney, he competed at the Commonwealth Games in Perth.<\/p>\n

Mitta came home with gold after defeating Ghana’s Samuel Abbey in the final.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2016, friends, family members and former boxers honoured the champion with a commemoration at his graveside in Cherbourg after the Boxing Supporters Association of Qld Inc raised funds for a commemorative tombstone.<\/p>\n

Three boxers and two boxing associates are being inducted into the Hall of Fame this year.<\/p>\n

As well as Mitta, they are:<\/p>\n