{{short description|English boxer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=June 2015}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Dave McCleave | image = | image_size = | caption = | nationality = British (English) | sport = Boxing | club = Lynn BC | birth_date = {{birth date|1911|12|24|df=y}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=57Apx8FZDNl8h3%2BcITHyng&scan=1|title=Index entry|accessdate=8 January 2022|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}</ref> | birth_place = Battersea, London, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1988|5|19|1911|12|24|df=y}} | death_place = | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Men's Boxing}} {{MedalCountry|{{ENG}}}} {{MedalCompetition|British Empire Games}} {{MedalGold| 1934 London | Welterweight}} }}
'''David Edward McCleave''' (24 December 1911 – 19 May 1988) was an English boxer who competed for Great Britain in the 1932 Summer Olympics.
== Boxing career == McCleave born in Battersea, boxed out of Lynn BC.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000681/19340103/350/0015 |title=McCleave v. Barry - When? |work=Daily Herald |date=3 January 1934 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=6 September 2025}}</ref>
In 1932 he finished fourth in the welterweight class. He was not able to compete in the bronze medal bout against Bruno Ahlberg. At the 1934 Empire Games he won the gold medal in the welterweight class after winning the final against Dick Barton.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Boxers at the 1934 British Empire Games: Robey Leibbrandt, Lord David Douglas-Hamilton, Maxie Berger, Dave McCleave, Dick Barton, Albert Barnes (Inglés) Tapa blanda – 1 septiembre 2010|id={{ASIN|115861022X|country=es}}}}</ref>
He won the 1932 and 1934 Amateur Boxing Association British welterweight titles and the 1931 lightweight title, when boxing out of the Lynn ABC.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.englandboxing.org/roll-of-honour/gender/male-championships/|title=Roll of Honour|publisher=England Boxing|access-date=8 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Boxing New Champions |work=The Scotsman |date=17 March 1932 |access-date=31 December 2021 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19320317/204/0016| via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
==Personal life== In the 1950s he was the landlord of the Union Tavern Pub Camberwell New Road.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Former British champion Dave McCleave's Boxing Pub 1957 (Video)|url=https://www.britishboxers.co.uk/2015/02/former-british-champion-dave-mccleaves-boxing-pub-1957-video/|date=2015-02-20|website=British Boxing BBTV|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> It was a boxing pub where David Benjamin Gray was compere and manager with his wife Irene Alice Gray.
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==External links== *{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mc/dave-mccleave-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418042630/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mc/dave-mccleave-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18 |title=Dave McCleave}}
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