Gerry Storey
British boxer
- Born
- 1936, Belfast
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Sport
- boxing
- Occupation
- boxer
Gerry Storey MBE (born 1936, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a boxing trainer who has coached the Irish Olympic boxing team on four occasions.
Storey is the head coach of the Holy Family Boxing Club in North Belfast. Storey and the club were featured in the BBC documentary Fight Town in 2003 and the club also appeared in the Daniel Day-Lewis film The Boxer. Storey has trained or co-trained many boxers, including Hugh Russell, Neil Sinclair, Barry McGuigan, Paddy Barnes and Carl Frampton.
McGuigan was training by Storey from the age of 14 through to his Olympic and Commonwealth bids, and claims Storey's club is the "most successful boxing club in the country". Storey's middle son Sam was also an accomplished amateur boxer who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics, the 1986 Commonwealth Games and won the British Super Middleweight title as a professional.
Awards and honours
- Member of the Order of the British Empire
External links
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