{{Short description|Boxer who competed for England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2025}} {{Use British English|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Johnny Caiger | image = | image_size = <!--Only for images narrower than 220 pixels.--> | caption = | nationality = British (English) | birth_date = 8 April 1939 | birth_place = Romford, England | death_date = March 2018 | death_place = Weymouth, England | sport = Boxing | event = Middleweight | height = | weight = | club = Monteagle ABC, London | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Boxing}} {{MedalCountry | {{ENG}} }} {{MedalCompetition|British Empire & Commonwealth Games}} {{MedalBronze| 1958 Cardiff|-75 kg}} }}
'''John Edward Caiger''' (1939–2018), was a male boxer who competed for England.
== Biography == Caiger represented the England team during the boxing tournament at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002134/19580522/361/0013 |title=Empire Games Team Completed |work=Birmingham Daily Post |p=13 |date=22 May 1958 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=28 September 2025}}</ref> in the -75 Kg division and won a bronze medal.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/44238|title=Athletes and results|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/cardiff-1958/athletes|title=1958 Athletes|publisher=Team England}}</ref>
He was the 1961 Amateur Boxing Association British middleweight champion, when boxing for the Army.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.englandboxing.org/roll-of-honour/gender/male-championships/|title=Roll of Honour|publisher=England Boxing|access-date=2 January 2022}}</ref> He turned professional under Terry Lawless and later worked as the trainer for Fairburn House Boys Club in Canning Town.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.englandboxing.org/members/tributes/|title=Tributes|publisher=England Boxing}}</ref>
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