Bobby Hume

Biographical information

RolesReferee
SexMale
Full nameRobert Lawrie "Bobby"•Hume
Used nameBobby•Hume
Born28 September 1912 in Edinburgh, Scotland (GBR)
Died22 April 1986 (aged 73 years 6 months 24 days) in Edinburgh, Scotland (GBR)
NOC Great Britain

Biography

Bobby Hume was a boxing referee and judge from the Gilmerton area of Edinburgh. He was a highly rated international referee and was voted the best referee at the 1959 European Amateur Championships in Lucerne. The following year, he officiated in many bouts at the Roma Olympics including the light-heavyweight final between Cassius Clay and Zbigniew Pietrzykowski.

Hume, who served in the Gilmerton Battalion of the Home Guard during World War II, was appointed secretary of the Eastern Division of the Scottish ABA in 1945. He was assistant secretary of the Scottish ABA at the time and later became treasurer, and president, of the SABA. He was also president of the Gilmerton ABC.

Referee

Games Sport (Discipline) / Event NOC / Team Phase Unit Role As
1960 Summer Olympics Boxing GBR Bobby Hume
Flyweight, Men (Olympic) Match 1/2 Gyula Török — Sergey Sivko Judge #1
Flyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #1 Sergey Sivko — Kiyoshi Tanabe Judge #1
Flyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #1 Kiyoshi Tanabe — Mircea Dobrescu Referee
Flyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #2 Sergey Sivko — Manfred Homberg Judge #2
Flyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #4 Abdel Moneim El-Gindy — Humberto Barrera Judge #2
Flyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #1 Mircea Dobrescu — Paul Chervet Referee
Flyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #2 Kiyoshi Tanabe — Karimu Young Judge #1
Flyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #4 Sergey Sivko — Antoine Porcel Judge #4
Flyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #8 Abdel Moneim El-Gindy — Paolo Curcetti Referee
Flyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #2 Paul Chervet — Kicha Poonphol Judge #2
Flyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #5 Manfred Homberg — Henryk Kukier Referee
Flyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #10 Miguel Ángel Botta — Segundo Macalalad Judge #5
Flyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #12 Gyula Török — Eusebio Mesa Judge #2
Flyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #15 Abdel Moneim El-Gindy — Roby Rausch Referee
Flyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #16 Paolo Curcetti — Jo Horny Judge #1
Bantamweight, Men (Olympic) Match #4 Primo Zamparini — Jerry Armstrong Judge #1
Bantamweight, Men (Olympic) Match #6 Alfonso Carbajo — Peter Weiss Judge #2
Bantamweight, Men (Olympic) Match #7 József Nagy — Jean Parra Judge #4
Bantamweight, Men (Olympic) Match #11 Peter Weiss — Oei Hok Tiang Judge #5
Bantamweight, Men (Olympic) Match #13 Primo Zamparini — Panagiotis Kostarellos Judge #5
Featherweight, Men (Olympic) Match 1/2 Francesco Musso — Jerzy Adamski Judge #4
Featherweight, Men (Olympic) Match #1 Jerzy Adamski — William Meyers Referee
Featherweight, Men (Olympic) Match #2 Francesco Musso — Jorma Limmonen Judge #5
Featherweight, Men (Olympic) Match #4 Francesco Musso — Boris Nikonorov Judge #1
Featherweight, Men (Olympic) Match #8 Boris Nikonorov — Carlos Aro Judge #3
Featherweight, Men (Olympic) Match #4 Ernst Chervet — Vicente Saldívar Judge #2
Featherweight, Men (Olympic) Match #8 Abe Bekker — José Luis Biescas Judge #1
Featherweight, Men (Olympic) Match #12 Francesco Musso — Miloslav Paunović Judge #3
Featherweight, Men (Olympic) Match #13 Boris Nikonorov — Nick Spanakos Judge #3
Featherweight, Men (Olympic) Match #14 Carlos Aro — Lajos Baranyai Referee
Lightweight, Men (Olympic) Match 1/2 Kazimierz Paździor — Sandro Lopopolo Referee
Lightweight, Men (Olympic) Match #2 Sandro Lopopolo — Abel Laudonio Judge #1
Lightweight, Men (Olympic) Match #2 Kazimierz Paździor — Salah Shokweir Referee
Lightweight, Men (Olympic) Match #4 Sandro Lopopolo — Harry Campbell Referee
Lightweight, Men (Olympic) Match #2 Ferenc Kellner — Yasuyuki Ito Referee
Lightweight, Men (Olympic) Match #3 Kazimierz Paździor — Harry Lempio Judge #3
Lightweight, Men (Olympic) Match #7 Harry Campbell — Lee Gwang-Ju Referee
Lightweight, Men (Olympic) Match #2 Eddie Blay — Gualberto Gutiérrez Referee
Lightweight, Men (Olympic) Match #5 Harry Lempio — Noureddine Dziri Referee
Lightweight, Men (Olympic) Match #8 Salah Shokweir — Josef Grumser Judge #5
Lightweight, Men (Olympic) Match #32 Sandro Lopopolo — Johnny Bolang Referee
Light-Welterweight, Men (Olympic) Match #1 Quincey Daniels — Sayed El-Nahas Judge #1
Light-Welterweight, Men (Olympic) Match #3 Marian Kasprzyk — Vladimir Engibaryan Judge #2
Light-Welterweight, Men (Olympic) Match #4 Piero Brandi — Luis Aranda Judge #5
Light-Welterweight, Men (Olympic) Match #6 Marian Kasprzyk — György Pál Judge #3
Light-Welterweight, Men (Olympic) Match #3 Quincey Daniels — Aleksandar Mitsev Referee
Light-Welterweight, Men (Olympic) Match #10 Vladimir Engibaryan — Werner Busse Judge #3
Light-Welterweight, Men (Olympic) Match #31 Raoul Sarrazin — François Sowa Judge #3
Welterweight, Men (Olympic) Match 1/2 Nino Benvenuti — Yury Radonyak Judge #1
Welterweight, Men (Olympic) Match #1 Yury Radonyak — Bruno Guse Judge #2
Welterweight, Men (Olympic) Match #12 Nino Benvenuti — Jean Josselin Judge #1
Light-Middleweight, Men (Olympic) Match #1 Wilbert McClure — Boris Lagutin Judge #2
Light-Middleweight, Men (Olympic) Match #3 Carmelo Bossi — Souleymane Diallo Judge #4
Light-Middleweight, Men (Olympic) Match #3 Boris Lagutin — Alhassan Brimah Judge #1
Light-Middleweight, Men (Olympic) Match #5 Souleymane Diallo — Nicolae Stoenescu Referee
Light-Middleweight, Men (Olympic) Match #6 Carmelo Bossi — Pedro Votta Judge #4
Light-Middleweight, Men (Olympic) Match #12 Carmelo Bossi — Brian van Niekerk Judge #5
Middleweight, Men (Olympic) Match #1 Eddie Crook — Ion Monea Judge #4
Middleweight, Men (Olympic) Match #2 Tadeusz Walasek — Yevgeny Feofanov Referee
Middleweight, Men (Olympic) Match #1 Ion Monea — Hans Büchi Judge #3
Middleweight, Men (Olympic) Match #3 Yevgeny Feofanov — Luigi Napoleoni Judge #3
Middleweight, Men (Olympic) Match #10 Moussa El-Gelidi — Eberhard Radzik Referee
Middleweight, Men (Olympic) Match #13 Tadeusz Walasek — Sultan Mahmoud Judge #5
Light-Heavyweight, Men (Olympic) Match 1/2 Cassius Clay — Zbigniew Pietrzykowski Judge #1
Light-Heavyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #2 Zbigniew Pietrzykowski — Giulio Saraudi Judge #4
Light-Heavyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #1 Gennady Shatkov — Ray Cillien Judge #1
Light-Heavyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #6 Rafael Gargiulo — José Leite Judge #2
Heavyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #4 Daan Bekker — Obrad Sretenović Referee
Heavyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #4 Franco De Piccoli — Willy Venneman Judge #1
Heavyweight, Men (Olympic) Match #5 Günter Siegmund — Max Bösiger Judge #1