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. Born: 1 July 1888, Kings Norton, Worcestershire, England Also in 2013, "Cool Hand" Campbell finished third in the eighth series of Dancing on Ice on ITV, with professional partner Jenna Smith. 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. Category:Olympic medalists in boxing | Military Wiki | Fandom. However, he travelled to Melbourne, and after four wins he was up against the hard-hitting Romanian Mircea Dobrescu in the final but Spinks was too classy for him and he won on points. 1956 - Gold (Lightweight) Wikis. During his career he competed in 29 different sports and represented Australia in five. Boxers representing Great Britain have won 18 gold medals (16 men, 2 women) between 1908 and 2016 ad we look at those who have come good over … He was travelling home from Finland with his father after they had been on a business trip to buy wood for the family business, when the SS Oberon, the ship they were travelling on, collided with another ship, the Arcturus, in foggy weather off the coast of Denmark. 2004 - Peristeri Olympic Boxing Hall, Athens, Greece; Gold: Odlanier Solis Fonte - Cuba Silver: Viktar Zuyev - Belarus Bronze: Mohamed Elsayed - Egypt Bronze: Naser Al Shami - Syria. ADAMS, Nicola Virginia Harry Mitchell The O2 Arena was packed with 18,000 fans for their professional re-match, which Groves again won on points. He was the ABA middleweight champion five successive years 1919-23 and was the world amateur middleweight champion in 1920 and 1928. 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. GB’s other gold medallist in Paris was light-heavyweight Harry Mitchell as amateur boxing was becoming an established Olympic event and rapidly gaining ground with 27 countries entering boxers in these Games. Spinks and McTaggart were fine sporting ambassadors for their team and respective countries, as they demonstrated their winning skills in the ring and were not concerned by any political under currents in Melbourne. Add new page. Olympics competed in: 1 (1908) Jump to:navigation, search (xxx lbs/xx kb) 1896-1900 Not held; 1904 - St. Louis, MO, USA; Gold: Harry Spanger - USA Silver: James Jack Eagan - USA Bronze: Russell van Horn - USA. Great Britain, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. The third Briton to win the Olympic middleweight title, and the first since Harry Mallin in 1924, Chris Finnegan was the golden boy of British boxing in the early 1970s. Less than 18 months after turning professional DeGale had won the WBA International super-middleweight title and in December 2010 he beat Paul Smith to win the British super-middleweight title. Mallin was an extraordinary character, a London policeman, and only ever boxed as an amateur and was undefeated in over 300 contests. Campbell won the 2007 and 2008 Senior ABA Bantamweight title, beating Gareth Smith 23-1 in the second year. A member of the famous London Polytechnic Boxing Club, Harry Mitchell won the 1924 Olympic light-heavyweight gold medal by beating Thyge Petersen of Denmark in a disappointing final. 5 famous Olympic boxing medallists who went on to become World Champions (Video) The most iconic pictures of all time. Olympic medals: 1908 - Gold (Lightweight). Register Military . Since 1952 third place matches have not been held with both beaten semi-finalists awarded a bronze medal. Sutherland had beaten DeGale in the final of both the 2007 and 2008 European championships, but DeGale turned the tables to win on points. 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… A member of the Surrey Commercial Docks Boxing Club, he was a printer at the time of his Olympic success and his vast experience helped him to victory over the younger and more enthusiastic Charley Morris in the featherweight final, taking the verdict on points. A tough draw pitched him against some classy opponents, including the world number four, Erislandy Savon of Cuba. Olympics competed in: 1 - 2012 And at aged 18 he was Britain's youngest ever Olympic boxing champion. Died: 19 December 1930, at sea, seven miles south of the Laeso Trindel Lightship, Denmark Johnny and his father were two of 42 passengers and crew who lost their lives, Johnny reportedly losing his life trying to save his father. However, the London Ex-Boxers Association stepped in and flew McTaggart to London where he was presented to the crowd before the lightweight final. British Olympic boxing gold medalists Nicola Adams and Anthony Joshua pose for photographs during the reception for Team GB and Paralympic GB athletes on September 10, 2012 in London, England. 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. Many gold-less Games followed, for whatever reason, and it was not until Melbourne in 1956 that Team GB delivered gold once more, with two medals going to the late Terry Spinks MBE in the flyweight division and Scotland’s greatest ever amateur boxer, Dick McTaggart MBE at lightweight, who was also ABA champion at that weight that year. This is the complete list of Olympic medalists in boxing from 1904 to 2012. This newspaper has been a central part of community life for many years. He was named the Amateur Boxer of the Year in 2009 by the Boxing Writers' Club of Great Britain. Popular pages. FANDOM. His greatest achievement was for Essex against Derbyshire in 1921 when he scored a career best 210 not out, and that was after talking nine Derbyshire wickets for 47 runs. Finchley ABC’s Anthony Joshua 0BE became our second Olympic super–heavyweight champion, having earlier won ABA super-heavyweight crowns in 2010 and 2011 and also a GB title in 2010. He was named the Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1915. All the best photo and video highlights of Boxing at the Los Angeles 1984 Summer Games Olympics, plus official results and medals by event and athlete. FINNEGAN, Christopher Martin 14, but not for a good reason. Clearly we will never see the likes of the late Mallin ever again. And in 2001 she became the first female boxer to represent England. In other words, Olympic gold medalists have a 17 per cent chance of becoming a major belt-holder. Women's boxing was included in the Olympic programme for the first time in 2012 and Britain's Nicola Adams became the first champion. This is the complete list of Olympic medalists in boxing from 1904 to 2012. A member of the famous Polytechnic Boxing Club he had a big impact on the future and growth of the club after the war. Following his Olympic success, DeGale, known as "Chunky" was awarded the MBE in the 2009 New Year's Honours List. He was out of boxing for nearly a year with that knuckle injury but in 2001, after receiving the MBE, he turned professional with a £1 million sponsorship deal from the BBC who agreed to broadcast his first ten fights. Some may genuinely question the ability and greatness or otherwise of those early Olympians and whether they could match up to Olympic champions of today. McTaggart received one of the greatest accolades that can be bestowed upon a boxer when, in 2000, he was inducted into the Boxing International Hall of Fame, and two years later he was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame. Olympic medals: 1924 - Gold (Light-heavyweight). However, she missed much of 2009 with a back injury. That contest lasted less than two minutes which means that Oldman won his gold medal without boxing the equivalent of a single round! OLYMPIC GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOXING. Beijing 2022 . Boxing Rugby league Racing US sports More British Olympic team 2008 'In 2009 I am determined to moisturise more' Great Britain's 27 gold medal-winning Olympians reveal their hopes … He joined the club when he came out of the Army in 1919 and in less than three months he was the ABA heavyweight champion. The name of Nicola Adams will remain immortalised in the Olympic record books for all time. Chris Finnegan - Credit: PA. To win an Olympic crown and then to successfully defend it four years later is some feat, in whatever era it is achieved in. Wells later went on to hold the British and European professional lightweight titles, and British and Commonwealth Welterweight titles. A further four months later and Ron Rawson was the Olympic heavyweight champion after he knocked out the Dane Søren Petersen in two rounds. British rower Tom Ransley and Australian cyclist Amy Cure are out. A member of his father's timber business, Douglas made his first class cricket debut in 1901 but was dismissed for a "pair". But he surely did and in some style too to become our first gold medalist for over 32 years. Great Britain's Nicola Adams with her gold medal after her fight with China's Canacan Ren during the Women's fly 55kg final at the London 2012 Olympics He later joined the Repton Amateur Boxing Club in Bethnal Green and with them Harrison was the ABA super-heavyweight champion in 1997 and 1998, he was also the Commonwealth Games champion in the second of those years. Will we ever see her like again, I very much doubt we will, but with the Tokyo 2020 Olympics deferred until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic, we look forward to hopefully more gold medal success next year. Boxing at the 1980 Summer Olympics took place at the Indoor Stadium of the Olympiski Sports Complex in Moscow from 20 July to 2 August. Olympic medals: 2012 - Gold (Women's Flyweight). Finnegan managed to regain his British title against Johnny Frankham in 1975 but it turned out to be his last fight as a detached retina of the eye forced Finnegan's retirement in 1975. skip to content. Harry Thomas. The legendary Henry William “Harry” Mallin won the first of his Olympic gold medals in the middleweight division as heavyweight Ron Rawson got the other gold medal. Harry Mallin Olympics competed in: 1 (1924) Two of his brothers were also services champions so the McTaggart boys were not ones to pick a fight with in Dundee in those days. In April 2010 he beat Michael Sprott to land the European heavyweight title and six months later he was beaten in three rounds by arch rival David Haye at the MEN Arena for the WBA heavyweight title in what was the lowest point in Harrison's boxing career. Harry Thomas was the lightest of the five British boxing gold medallists at the 1908 London Olympics, winning the bantamweight title. Winning margins are often very tight and this final was certainly a very tight one to call, but Joshua got it and has not looked back ever since. Remembering British boxing’s Olympic golden wonders. 219 competitors, 149 men and 70 women, took part in 145 events in 14 sports. The Dane wanted to fight from close quarters and hung on to Mitchell throughout most of the contest. Jonas fights four-time world champion Katie Taylor for a medal on Monday. John Douglas Wells had won four consecutive ABA titles going into the Olympics and was clear favourite for the title but Grace had other ideas. Nicola Adams started boxing at the age of 13 and had her first competitive contest a year later just after the ban on women's boxing in Britain had been lifted. 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. He was educated at Westminster School and then Cambridge University. LA 2028; Milano Cortina 2026 . The French-Canadian Prud'homme went into the final having knocked out all three of his opponents on his way to the final. Once again, there was some element of surprise in some quarters that he had reached the pinnacle of Olympic success. Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display Shortly after the Olympics he turned professional at the age of 19, having his first bout at Harringay Arena on 9 April 1957. A silver medal then came her way at the 2008 AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships in Ningbo (CHN). Terry Spinks Ron Rawson Campbell had a bye at the Olympics in the first round and then three wins on points over Italian, Bulgarian and Japanese opposition saw him up against the experienced John Joe Nevin of Ireland in the final. Born: 5 June 1944, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England Harry Mallin and Dick McTaggart (see entries below) have each won two medals, the most by a British boxer. In the modern era, boxing was introduced to the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis. The likeable girl from a deprived area of Leeds, and a member of the Haringey Police Community Club, had a bye in the first round and then had a 16-7 points win over Bulgaria's Stoyka Petrova before meeting Mary Kom in the semi-final, but she had no difficulty is getting past her Indian opponent with an 11-6 win. Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua, OBE (born 15 October 1989) is a British professional boxer who is a two-time unified heavyweight champion, having held the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, and IBO titles since December 2019 and previously between 2016 and June 2019. Died: 26 April, 2012, Chadwell Heath, Barking & Dagenham, London Homepage. Born: 29 February 1884, Edmonton, London facebook Share; twitter Share; redirect More; Related Photos Galleries. Main article: Boxing at the Summer Olympics. Harry Mallin became the first man ever to succdssfully defend an Olympic boxing title and he remains the only Briton to win two boxing gold medals. When he won the super-heavyweight gold medal at Sydney in 2000, Audley Harrison became the first Briton to win the heaviest weight division at the Olympics since Ron Rawson in 1920, and the first British Olympic gold medallist in any division since Chris Finnegan in 1968. A third ABA title followed in 1960 and a second Olympic medal came that year in Rome when he was beaten in the semi-final by the eventual champion Kazimierz Pazdzior of Poland. Great Britain's James Degale with his gold medal after beating Cubas' Emilio Correa Bayeaux in the men's middle (75kg) boxing final at the Workers Gymnasium, during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, China. The boxer competed in the light-middleweight division in Seoul, making it to the gold medal match rather easily. Before joining the police, Oldman served as a member of the Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) and was an escort to King Edward VII. Five months later and DeGale was back in the ring winning the European super-middleweight title. He was only 24 at the time and despite not fighting for Commonwealth, European or World titles he was at the time of his death in 2012, the only man to win Schoolboy, ABA, British and Olympic titles. Thomas only fought two bouts on his way to winning the gold medal. In the 2010 and 2012 World Championship she was beaten by China's Cancan on both occasions. In the semi-final Gunn beat Tom Ringer, the 1908 ABA champions and member of Gunn's former club, Lynn Boxing Club. 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. Joshua had beaten the Italian on his way to the world final the previous year but Cammarelle's experience told in the first round at the ExCel Exhibition Centre as he edged it by one point. They had met each other once as an amateur and Groves won on points much to DeGale's dismay and annoyance. However, he always wanted to be a jockey, because of his size, and whilst serving as a stable lad he took part in a stable lads boxing competition and he soon got hooked on his new sport. A classy fighter Douglas was one of the best middleweights of the era and in 1908 at the London Olympics he took the gold medal after winning three bouts, all on the same day. Chris Finnegan, the former bricklayer who became an MBE, died in 2009 following spells of both ill health and financial difficulties. Menu. Women’s boxing medalists. Amelie Morgan of Great Britain (silver), Giorgia Villa of Italy (gold) and Anastasiia Bachynska of Ukraine (bronze) posing with their medals after the Artistic Gymnastics - Women’s Individual All-Around on Day 6 of the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games at the America Pavilion, Youth Olympic Park on October 12, 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He died in 1952, aged 59 and was survived by his wife Freda whom Rawson married in 1922 - and re-married in 1945! List This article has been rated as List-Class on the project's quality scale. Finnegan proved his critics wrong and overcame three tough opponents in Mexico City in Mate Parlov of Yugoslavia in the quarter-final, American Al Jones in the semi and the Russian Alexsei Kisalov in the final, gaining a 3-2 majority verdict from the judges. Great Britain's Nicola Adams with her gold medal following victory over France's Sarah Ourahmoune in the women's flyweight final at the 2016 Rio Olympics. List of Olympic medalists in boxing List of Youth Olympic Games gold medalists who won Olympic gold medals Flyweight gold; body. Gunn came out of retirement in 1908 to fight at the Olympics having previously called it a day after his third successive ABA title in 1896 after the authorities asked him to retire because he was so superior to all other fighters in his class at the time, He later served on the ABA Council before returning to the ring. BOXING was introduced into the Olympic programme in 1904 and has been included every year since, with the exception of 1912 when boxing was banned in Sweden, who played hosts to the Games that year. Finnegan nearly missed the Olympics because he was due to appear at Slough Magistrates on an unpaid National Insurance Stamp charge. Great Britain, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.British athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games. Boxing, 51 kg (fly), ADAMS, Nicola, Great Britain, India, London 2012, People's Republic of China, Women, 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. 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. 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