Dale Walters

Dale Walters medal table
Boxing
Canada
Olympic Summer Games
bronze	1984	Bantamweight

Dale Walters (born September 27, 1963 in Port Alice , British Columbia ) is a retired Canadian boxer and actor .

Boxing career

Dale Walters started boxing when she was a child. Until the early 1980s he won several titles in his age and weight class, with almost 50 wins in a row in the junior class. In 1982, 1983 and 1984 he was Canadian bantamweight champion and was voted the best boxer of the championships.

He played his first international fight at the World Championships in Munich in 1982 when he defeated Poland's Sławomir Zapart in the preliminary round. In the last sixteen, however, he lost to the Turkish Burhan Koç. Due to controversial judgments, he was then eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Commonwealth Games in 1982 and the Pan American Games in 1983. At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , he won a bronze medal in bantamweight, after he was only defeated in the semifinals against Héctor López . In the quarterfinals he had beaten Pedro Decima . It was the first Canadian boxing medal in the Olympic Games since Horace Gwynne's gold medal in 1932.

In 1985 and 1986 he played seven professional fights in Canada, of which he won six. After his loss to Tony Pep in November 1986, he retired from active boxing. As a boxer, he played a total of 184 fights, of which he won 171.

Outside the ring

Dale Walters played in 1980 leading roles in the television series The Coast Pilots and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, among others . He was inducted into the Canadian Boxing Hall of Fame in 1996, the Burnaby Sports Hall of Fame in 2003, and the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame in 2006. With 500 double unders in jumping rope, he made an entry in the Guinness Book of Records .

After his active career, he opened a fitness and boxing club in Vancouver .

Web links

• Dale Walters in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Dale Walters in the BoxRec database
• Dale Walters at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Dale Walters at BC Sports Hall of Fame