Everyone at Commonwealth Games Scotland was saddened to learn of the passing of boxing legend Dick McTaggart MBE.

Widely regarded as Dundee’s greatest ever sportsman, McTaggart won Commonwealth Games gold and silver medals as part of a remarkable amateur career, winning 610 of 634 bouts.

He was just 21 when he won the gold medal at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games – to this day the only Scot to win boxing gold at the Olympic Games.

Having declined offers to turn professional he travelled to Cardiff with Team Scotland in 1958, again returning with the gold medal. He would go on to win bronze at the 1960 Rome Olympics and silver at the 1962 Perth Commonwealth Games as well as competing at the 1964 Olympics in Toyko, becoming the only British boxer to compete in three Olympic Games.

He was voted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2000 and was one of the inaugural inductees into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2002.

Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this time.