Laurie Levine
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British (English) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Weightlifting |
Event | Middleweight |
| Club | Kentish Town |
Lawrence Levine is a male former weightlifter who competed for England.
Biography
Levine represented represented the England team in the -75 Kg combined category at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales.[1]
Eight years later he competed for the England team[2], once again in the -75 Kg combined category at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica.[3][4][5]
A third Commonwealth Games appearance resulted when he represented England, at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.[6][7]
He was also the British middleweight champion.
He won middleweight gold at the 1957 Maccabiah Games.[8] Additionally, he was a member of Maccabi London weightlifting team and won a gold medal at the 1965 Maccabiah Games.
References
- ^ "1958 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "Louis Martin in Games team". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 30 June 1966. p. 25. Retrieved 14 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "1966 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "Kingston, Jamaica, 1966 Team". Team England.
- ^ "1970 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "Edinburgh, 1970 Team". Team England.
- ^ "British doubles in Israel". Nottingham Guardian. 20 September 1957. p. 6. Retrieved 11 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.