Category:Olympic medalists in boxing | Military Wiki | Fandom. Sudhir Bose FOLLOW. During the late afternoon of Thursday August 9, 2012 a piece of Olympic boxing history was made when Nicola Adams MBE, a flyweight, became the first female to win an Olympic gold medal in the ring. Harrison had 38 professional bouts, winning 31 with 23 of them being knockouts. Died: 30 March 1952, Kensington, London Rawson was a hard hitting heavyweight and he stopped all three of his opponents at the Antwerp Olympics. Rawson had 28 bouts, winning all and 27 with knockouts or stoppages. In the 2010 and 2012 World Championship she was beaten by China's Cancan on both occasions. In the lead-up to some past Games some of our home boxers had to take part in British box-offs, or trials, but this was a whole new ball game, you were up against world class performers, before even getting to throw a punch in the Olympic ring itself. LA 2028; Milano Cortina 2026 . The boxing tournaments at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 6 to 21 August 2016 at the Pavilion 6 of Riocentro. Mitchell went into the Olympics as the three times ABA champion, having won the light-heavy division in 1922, 1923 and 1924. Harrison became our first-ever Olympic super-heavyweight champion Down Under and was the first GB Olympic champion who was required to enter the World Zonal qualifying tournaments before the Olympics proper. Campbell won the 2007 and 2008 Senior ABA Bantamweight title, beating Gareth Smith 23-1 in the second year. Audley Harrison She then became the first British woman to win a major boxing title when she won the 2011 European Championships and that was followed in 2012 with another World Championship silver. Having put Harris on the canvas twice in the opening round the referee called a halt to proceedings after just 88 seconds. When he finished his National Service, McTaggart received numerous offers to turn professional, buy declined them all and got a job, first of all as a pest control consultant and then spent many years working at Rolls Royce. Douglas, nicknamed "Johnny Won't Hit Today" (because of his initials) by some Australian supporters, played for England 23 times and was captain on 18 occasions. He is still making good headway now punching for pay and held the WBC Silver and Commonwealth lightweight titles from 2016-2017. FINNEGAN, Christopher Martin Nevin beat the reigning world champion Lázaro Álvarez in the Olympic semi-final and in the final both Nevin and Campbell were evenly matched for the first two rounds but then Campbell put the Irishman on the canvas to run out the winner by 14 points to 11. The sport was first held in 1904, however several weeks after the last overseas competitors had left St. Louis. Boxing, 51 kg (fly), ADAMS, Nicola, Great Britain, India, London 2012, People's Republic of China, Women, Olympic medals: 1968 - Gold (Middleweight). Born: 1 July 1888, Kings Norton, Worcestershire, England Flyweight Terry Spinks, left, and lightweight Dick McTaggart of Dundee, who both won gold medals for Great Britain in the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. ", McTAGGART, Richard City of London policeman, and London police heavyweight champion, Albert Oldman won the 1908 Olympic heavyweight title after two first round knockouts on the way to the final. Campbell beat Dalakliev again in the quarter-final at the 2012 Olympics. A year later McTaggart won a fourth ABA title, at his new weight. A member of his father's timber business, Douglas made his first class cricket debut in 1901 but was dismissed for a "pair". 1908 - London, England; Gold: Frederick Grace - Great Britain Silver: Frederick Spiller - Great Britain Bronze: Harry Johnson - Great Britain. In the Spring of 1911 Thomas went to live in America and it was there, and in Australia, that he had most of his 35 professional contests. She put her opponent on the canvas in round two and ran out a clear 16-7 winner to create history. Thomas only fought two bouts on his way to winning the gold medal. Harry's younger brother Fred fought at the 1928 Olympics and was the last surviving Briton in the boxing events, reaching the semi-finals and then losing the third place contest to the Belgian middleweight Léonard Steyaert. Born: 18 November 1883, Mile End, London He took part in the springboard diving competition at the 1908 Olympics, and also the 4 x 200 metres freestyle relay. Rawson was the ABA champion again in 1921 and retired shortly afterwards but his success had motivated so many kids in the area that the membership of the Polytechnic Club had swelled to over 700 by 1923. In the modern era, boxing was introduced to the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis. Bantamweight gold was won by Luke Campbell, who had a very successful amateur career, including winning a gold at the European championships in 2008. He was named the Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1915. Dick McTaggart   Britain competed for the first time on home soil in 1908 and has competed ever since (except 1912). Born: 3 September 1882, Clapton, London He then added the vacant WBC Silver super-middleweight title. In 1921 Mallin was a member of the British team who had a memorable 4-0 win over a team of American amateurs at the International Sporting Club New York. So, how sweet was that revenge at the Olympic Games? Not only was she the first British woman to win an Olympic boxing gold medal, but she was also the sport's first ever Olympic champion, winning the flyweight title at London's ExCel Centre on 12 August 2012. The year after his Olympic success Thomas turned professional and stopped Albert Wallins in the first round at the Queen's Hall, Birmingham. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images He successfully defended his Olympic crown in Paris in 1924, surviving a quarter-final scare which eventually led to the disqualification of home favourite Roger Brousse for biting the Englishman. With the medal around his neck and a Union Jack around three sets of broad shoulders, Joshua later posed for photos with Lennox Lewis and Audley Harrison, two icons of British boxing … Some say he was lucky to be selected for the 1968 Olympics because he had to pull out of that year's ABA middleweight division with a cut eye in a preliminary round and normally only the champion gets selected for the British team in Olympic year but the selectors felt the new champion Peter McCann was not as experienced as Finnegan, the 1966 champion. Great Britain's Audley Harrison celebrates winning gold after defeating Kazakhstan's Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov in the super-heavyweight final at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney A true British Olympic legend, McTaggart won 610 of 634 amateur bouts yet sadly he was not invited to attend the 2012 Olympic Games in London by the British Olympic Association, a decision which hurt McTaggart. Died: 26 April, 2012, Chadwell Heath, Barking & Dagenham, London Dominic Lawson plays chess with the British-born former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis. Olympic medals: 2000 - Gold (Super-heavyweight). Boxing made its first appearance as an Olympic sport at the 1904 St Louis Olympic Games in the United States, but due to short notice only American boxers took part! All the best photo and video highlights of Boxing at the Munich 1972 Summer Games Olympics, plus official results and medals by event and athlete. American boxers were not present in London when the host nation, sometimes described as the UK in those far-off days, won all five golds thanks to bantamweight Henry Thomas, the only reigning ABA champion to land the ultimate prize; Dick Gunn at welterweight; Fred Grace at lightweight; John (JWHT) Douglas at middleweight and in the heavyweight division, Albert Oldman. Wells later went on to hold the British and European professional lightweight titles, and British and Commonwealth Welterweight titles. Harry Mallin and Dick McTaggart (see entries below)have each won two medals, the most by a British boxer. Born: 26 October 1971, Harlesden, London - Credit: PA. Olympics competed in: 1 - 2012 He retired in 1916 and the following year, being an American citizen, he served in the US Navy during World War One. He was named the Amateur Boxer of the Year in 2009 by the Boxing Writers' Club of Great Britain. She was also the women's ABA flyweight champion for the second time in 2007. The following year McTaggart beat Petar Benedek of Yugoslavia to win the European amateur lightweight title. When asked to define his ambitions shortly after his professional debut Joshua said: "Boxing has made me a better person. Olympic Boxing has been around since 688 B.C., never has Women’s Boxing been allowed as a competitive fun. He later became a movie stunt man and also appeared in several films in his own right. When James DeGale won Olympic gold in 2008, he became Britain's first middleweight champion since Chris Finnegan 40 years earlier. James DeGale He was introduced to boxing by a policeman who found a 12-year-old Ali seething over his stolen bicycle. Three years later he won his first British featherweight title by beating Bobby Neil. From BoxRec. Games Movies TV Video. The tragedy happened less than a week before Johnny's wedding anniversary, which was on Christmas Day. DeGale started boxing at the age of 10 with the Trojan club in Harlesden before moving to the famous Dale Youth Boxing Club in Shepherd's Bush - a club that has produced many great fighters over the years, and also kept a lot on West London kid's off the streets and on the straight and narrow. The GB Boxing Team are based at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield where they have a state-of-the-art purpose-built boxing gymnasium, opened in 2009. He was not one of Britain's medal hopes in Beijing and after two wins he came up against the defending champion Bakhtiyar Artayev but a third consecutive points decision came DeGale's way before he then met the fancied Irishman Darren Sutherland in the semi-final. Terry Spinks This newspaper has been a central part of community life for many years. Kulej triumphed 4-1 over the ageing Scot and Kulej defended his crown successfully four years later. Nicholas Gargano — Boxing, Men's Welterweight John McCormack — Boxing, Men's Light Middleweight Tom Simpson , Donald Burgess , Michael Gambrill , and … Add new page. rather better-known Alan Minter all won bronze medals, that British boxers have come away from an Olympics with more than a single medal. And on his release he went to London's Brunel University where he eventually attained a degree in Sports Science and Leisure Management, whilst at the same time keeping down three jobs and rising to the top of the amateur boxing tree. Olympic medals: 2012 - Gold (Men's Bantamweight). One of the fittest cricketer's of the day, Douglas was a great all-rounder, he took nearly 2,000 first class wickets and scored over 24,000 first class runs. Light Flyweight. Great Britain, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.British athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games.A total of 371 athletes represented Great Britain and the team won twenty medals… However, DeGale turned the tables in Beijing, outscoring Sutherland, who finished with a bronze medal. But how different Audley Harrison's life could have been. Main article: Boxing at the Summer Olympics. 273,526 Pages. Spinks never fought for the title again and he eventually hung up his gloves after his final bought in December 1962, winning against Johnny Mantle. He won an English schoolboys title and followed that in 1956 at the age of 18 by winning the ABA flyweight title, which led to selection for the 1956 British Olympic team, although there was some who thought he should not have been selected because of his youthful looks as he only looked about 12! Born: 16 February 1871, Charing Cross, London Finnegan's brother Kevin was also a professional boxer and held the British and European middleweight titles and was well known for three close battles with Alan Minter. Mallin was an extraordinary character, a London policeman, and only ever boxed as an amateur and was undefeated in over 300 contests. skip to content. This was the Games readers will remember when the icy shivers of the “Cold War” appeared for the first time in real earnest and sporting tensions were revealed just like the political, military and economic tensions alongside them. List of Olympic medalists in boxing is within the scope of WikiProject Olympics.For more information, visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. 225 competitors, 175 men and 50 women, took part in 133 events in 16 sports. He had a third shot at the Olympics in Tokyo in 1964, when in the light-welterweight division he had the misfortune to meet Poland’s Jerzy Kukej, the eventual gold medalist. Olympics competed in: 1 (1956) Olympic medals: 1920 - Gold (Heavyweight). A member of the Eton Mission Boxing Club, Fred Grace was a skilful boxer with quick footwork and those skills helped him to win seven out of eight competitions in 1907, they year before he won his Olympic gold medal. The Australian camp later insisted that Douglas only got the decision because Douglas's father was the referee and sole arbitrator. London 2012 was so far Team GB’s most successful in terms of gold medal triumphs with three such medals won on home soil. The first of his two Olympic titles came in 1920 when beat Canadian Art Prud'homme on points. Adams had acquired six other gold medals and four silver at a variety of international tournaments, including World Championships, European Games, European Union Championships and European Championships, and successfully defended her title in Rio in 2016 when outscoring France’s Sarah Ourahmoune (3-0) in the final. Finnegan came back with the response. Harrison sustained a knuckle injury during the Olympic campaign in 2000 and fought under immense pain in the final bout against Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov of Kazakhstan but came out on top with a 30-16 points win. He had won the ABA middleweight crown in 1966 and was a losing finalist in 1967, then in 1968 he lost on a cut eye in the London North West Divisional championships, hardly the credentials for a budding Olympic champion. But he surely did and in some style too to become our first gold medalist for over 32 years. Chris Finnegan A draw against Mexico’s Maria Salinas in this contest proved to be her goodbye and Adams is without doubt our greatest ever female boxer and certainly the hardest of all acts to follow. The United States have been the most successful boxing nation with 110 medals, incuding a record 49 golds. Every contribution will help us continue to produce local journalism that makes a measurable difference to our community. Beijing Olympics: British Boxing's 2008 class. Olympic Games. Finnegan was our last Olympic champion until big Audley Harrison MBE strutted his stuff in Sydney in 2000. At the 1908 Games in London five British boxers took all the gold medals. He won five consecutive ABA middleweight crowns from 1919-1923 and later became team manager for the GB Olympic boxing team in 1936 and also 1952. She was even more impressive in the final against the world's number one flyweight Ren Cancan of China - Nicola was ranked number two at the time. 1920 - Gold (Middleweight) Johnny Douglas was an all-round amateur sportsman at the turn of the 20th century. Wells had won four consecutive ABA titles going into the Olympics and was clear favourite for the title but Grace had other ideas. Italy dominated boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics, winning three gold medals and seven medals overall.Two of the gold medalists would later become Hall of Fame world champions in professional boxing: American Cassius Clay (later known as Muhammad Ali) and Italian Nino Benvenuti. Curiously enough, the boxing events in 1908 in London were held in the Autumn, a few months after the main athletic events had taken place in July. Great Britain's Anthony Joshua celebrates his win against Italy's Roberto Cammarelle in the Men's Boxing Super Heavy (+91kg) Final at the ExCeL Arena, on the final day of the London 2012 Olympics. 242 competitors, 176 men and 66 women, took part in 148 events in 17 sports. 219 competitors, 149 men and 70 women, took part in 145 events in 14 sports. Since 1958 third place matches have not been held with both beaten semi-finalists, excluding those disqualified or scratching, awarded a bronze medal. The contest was the coveted Ring magazine's 'Fight of the Year'. They are holding the Val Barker Cup, awarded to McTaggart as the most stylish boxer at the Games. Campbell was appointed an MBE in the 2013 New Year's Honours List and shortly afterwards he turned professional with the Eddie Hearn Matchroom stable and beat Andy Harris on his debut at Craven Park, Hull. SENIOR ANALYST Modified 09 Nov 2015, 18:02 IST. Pyeongchang 2018 . In 2011 he came close to making it a memorable year because in the World Amateur Championships in Azerbaijan he was beaten in the super-heavyweight final by just one point, 22-21, by local favourite Magomedrasul Majidov. At home, however, he was the ABA middleweight champion in both 2005 and 2006. Rio 2016 . Thomas went into the Olympics as the holder of the ABA bantamweight title, having previously won the Midlands title. Rio 2016 – Nicola Adams (Flyweight, 51kg) London 2012 – Nicola Adams (Flyweight, 51kg) Coming from a family with a boxing tradition, he was also a very proficient boxer, at which he won his Olympic gold medal in 1908. Once again, there was some element of surprise in some quarters that he had reached the pinnacle of Olympic success.

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