Archie Rankin

Biographical information

RolesReferee
SexMale
Full nameArchibald "Archie"•Rankin
Used nameArchie•Rankin
NOC Great Britain

Biography

Archie Rankin served with the British Railways police in Glasgow and was a Scottish police boxing champion. In 1953 he travelled to the Albert Hall in London and won the national police open light-middleweight title. Rankin continued boxing until he was 38 before becoming a trainer, promoter, and referee. Rankin was selected as a referee and judge for the 1968 Mexico Olympics but was one of several officials relieved of their duties because they had allowed their standard of refereeing to drop.

Referee

Games Sport (Discipline) / Event NOC / Team Phase Unit Role As
1968 Summer Olympics Boxing GBR Archie Rankin
Light-Flyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #1 Francisco Rodríguez — Harlan Marbley Judge #1
Light-Flyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #2 Harlan Marbley — Fuat Temel Judge #3
Light-Flyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #7 Alberto Morales — Bernd Englmeier Referee
Light-Flyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #11 Joey Donovan — György Gedó Judge #4
Flyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #5 Artur Olech — Constantin Ciucă Judge #1
Flyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #6 Nikolay Novikov — Kenny Mwansa Referee
Flyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #8 Tibor Badari — Prapan Duangchaoom Judge #1
Flyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #10 Artur Olech — Heriberto Cintrón Judge #2
Flyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #12 Nikolay Novikov — Félix Márquez Referee
Bantamweight, Men (Olympic) Match #4 Peppino Mura — Andrés Torres Judge #4
Bantamweight, Men (Olympic) Match #9 Nicolae Gîju — Sammy Goss Judge #1
Bantamweight, Men (Olympic) Match #11 Roberto Cervantes — Jan Gałązka Judge #5
Bantamweight, Men (Olympic) Match #28 Nikola Savov — Godfrey Mwamba Judge #4
Featherweight, Men (Olympic) Match 1/2 Antonio Roldán — Al Robinson Judge #4
Featherweight, Men (Olympic) Match #4 Mohamed Sourour — Ali Mebarki Judge #3
Featherweight, Men (Olympic) Match #13 Seyfi Tatar — Andrés Martín Judge #2
Featherweight, Men (Olympic) Match #16 Nils Dag Strømme — Werner Ruzicka Referee
Lightweight, Men (Olympic) Match #2 José Antonio Durán — Dominique Azzaro Judge #3
Lightweight, Men (Olympic) Match #9 Luis Minami — Tin Tun Judge #3
Lightweight, Men (Olympic) Match #14 Józef Grudzień — Roberto Caminero Judge #1
Light-Welterweight, Men (Olympic) Match #1 Jerzy Kulej — Peter Tiepold Judge #2
Light-Welterweight, Men (Olympic) Match #1 Jerzy Kulej — János Kajdi Judge #2
Light-Welterweight, Men (Olympic) Match #2 Jaime Lozano — Odartey Lawson Judge #5
Light-Welterweight, Men (Olympic) Match #13 Yevgeny Frolov — Ray Maguire Judge #2
Light-Welterweight, Men (Olympic) Match #14 Antoniu Vasile — Habib Galhia Judge #2
Light-Welterweight, Men (Olympic) Match #30 Antoniu Vasile — Ernest Dong Judge #2
Welterweight, Men (Olympic) Match #2 Vladimir Musalimov — Alfonso Ramírez Judge #1
Welterweight, Men (Olympic) Match #3 Mario Guilloti — Armando Muniz Judge #1
Welterweight, Men (Olympic) Match #3 Manfred Wolke — Andrés Molina Judge #3
Welterweight, Men (Olympic) Match #8 Vladimir Musalimov — Dieter Kottysch Referee
Welterweight, Men (Olympic) Match #11 Donato Paduano — Fidelis Onye Som Judge #1
Welterweight, Men (Olympic) Match #14 István Gáli — Yvon Mariolle Referee
Welterweight, Men (Olympic) Match #32 Julius Luipa — Rabah Labiod Referee
Light-Middleweight, Men (Olympic) Match #1 Rolando Garbey — Johnny Baldwin Judge #2
Light-Middleweight, Men (Olympic) Match #10 Ion Covaci — Witold Stachurski Judge #5
Light-Middleweight, Men (Olympic) Match #15 Christian Larsen — Albert Menduni Judge #1
Middleweight, Men (Olympic) Match #7 Al Jones — Raúl Marrero Judge #5
Middleweight, Men (Olympic) Match #12 Simeon Georgiev — Mario Casati Judge #3
Middleweight, Men (Olympic) Match #16 Jan van Ispelen — Misael Vilugrón Judge #4
Light-Heavyweight, Men (Olympic) Match 1/2 Danas Pozniakas — Ion Monea Judge #5
Light-Heavyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #2 Ion Monea — Stanisław Dragan Judge #1
Light-Heavyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #8 Walter Facchinetti — Kurt Baumgartner Judge #1
Heavyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #2 Jonas Čepulis — Joaquín Rocha Judge #2
Heavyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #2 Ion Alexe — John Coker Judge #4
Heavyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #6 Joaquín Rocha — Adonis Ray Referee