Britain's olympic boxing history
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Members of Britain's 1908 olympic boxing team
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Matt Wells
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Albert Oldman
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Ruben Warnes
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Richard Gunn
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Johnny Douglas
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Britain's early olympic boxing medal winners
| Olympics | Boxer | Weight | Medal | Pro | Born | Died |
| 1908 Summer Olympics (London, UK) | Albert Henry 'Harry' Thomas | Bantamweight | Gold | Yes | 01/07/1888 | 13/01/1963 |
| In 1909 Thomas emigrated to the USA, became an American citizen and served in the US Navy in World War One. | ||||||
| 1908 Summer Olympics (London, UK) | John Condon | Bantamweight | Silver | Yes | 28/02/1889 | 21/02/1919 |
| Condon was 1909 ABA bantamweight champion. | ||||||
| 1908 Summer Olympics (London, UK) | William 'Wally' Webb | Bantamweight | Bronze | 19/11/1882 | ||
| 1908 Summer Olympics (London, UK) | Richard Gunn | Featherweight | Gold | 16/02/1871 | 23/06/1961 | |
| At 37 years and 254 days old Gunn was the oldest Olympic boxing champion ever. He was ABA champion from 1894 to 1896. | ||||||
| 1908 Summer Olympics (London, UK) | Charles Morris | Featherweight | Silver | |||
| 1908 Summer Olympics (London, UK) | Hugh Roddin | Featherweight | Bronze | 10/03/1887 | 3-Mar-1954 | |
| Roddin was Scotland's first Olympic boxing medalist. | ||||||
| 1908 Summer Olympics (London, UK) | Fred Grace | Lightweight | Gold | 29/02/1884 | 23/07/1964 | |
| Grace won four ABA lightweight titles between 1909 and 1920. | ||||||
| 1908 Summer Olympics (London, UK) | Fred Spiller | Lightweight | Silver | 22/02/1885 | 15/09/1953 | |
| 1908 Summer Olympics (London, UK) | Harry Johnson | Lightweight | Bronze | |||
| 1908 Summer Olympics (London, UK) | Johnny Douglas | Middleweight | Gold | 03/09/1882 | 19/12/1930 | |
| Douglas and his father drowned when the 'Oberon', which they were travelling on, sunk off Laeso Trindel Lightship, Denmark. Douglas was also an England cricket Captain and a brother of Cecil ('Pickles') Douglas, a leading boxing referee. | ||||||
| 1908 Summer Olympics (London, UK) | William Philo | Middleweight | Bronze | 17/02/1882 | 7-Jul-1916 | |
| Philo served in the British Army during World War One. He was killed at the Battle of the Somme. | ||||||
| 1908 Summer Olympics (London, UK) | Albert Oldman | Heavyweight | Gold | 18/11/1883 | 15/01/1961 | |
| 1908 Summer Olympics (London, UK) | Sydney Evans | Heavyweight | Silver | 1881 | 1-Aug-1927 | |
| 1908 Summer Olympics (London, UK) | Frederick Parks | Heavyweight | Bronze | 11/03/1885 | 1-Mar-1945 | |
| Note: The host country, Sweden, refused to allow boxing at the 1912 Games. The 1916 Games, due to be held in Berlin, were cancelled due to World War One. | ||||||
| 1920 Summer Olympics (Antwerp, Belgium) | William Cuthbertson | Flyweight | Bronze | Yes | 7/3/1902 | |
| 1920 Summer Olympics (Antwerp, Belgium) | George McKenzie | Bantamweight | Bronze | Yes | 22/09/1901 | 1941 |
| McKenzie was 1920 ABA champion. As a professional he won British and Scottish featherweight titles. | ||||||
| 1920 Summer Olympics (Antwerp, Belgium) | Alex Ireland | Welterweight | Silver | Yes | 11/2/1901 | 1966 |
| Ireland was 1921 ABA welterweight champion and as a professional won the Scottish welterweight title and British and European middleweight titles. | ||||||
| 1920 Summer Olympics (Antwerp, Belgium) | Harry Mallin | Middleweight | Gold | No | 01/06/1892 | 8/11/1969 |
| Mallin was ABA champion five years running, never turned pro and was unbeaten as an amateur. | ||||||
| 1920 Summer Olympics (Antwerp, Belgium) | Harold Franks | Light-heavyweight | Bronze | Yes | ||
| 1920 Summer Olympics (Antwerp, Belgium) | Ronald Rawson | Heavyweight | Gold | No | 17/06/1892 | 30/03/1952 |
| 1924 Summer Olympics (Paris, France) | James McKenzie | Flyweight | Silver | |||
| 1924 Summer Olympics (Paris, France) | Harry Mallin | Middleweight | Gold | No | 01/06/1892 | 8/11/1969 |
| 1924 Summer Olympics (Paris, France) | John Elliott | Middleweight | Silver | 10/5/1901 | 25/06/1944 | |
| 1924 Summer Olympics (Paris, France) | Harry Mitchell | Light-heavyweight | Gold | 05/01/1898 | 8/2/1983 | |
| Mitchell won four consecutive ABA light-heavyweight titles (1922-25) | ||||||
| Note: Britain did not win any medals at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, Holland, nor at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, USA, nor the Berlin, Germany Olympics of 1936 (last of the pre-war Olympic Games events). |
British olympic boxers who didn't win medals
1908 Olympics:
Frank McGurk and Henry Perry (ABA bantamweight champion in 1903 and 1904).
Thomas Ringer, Edward Adams and John Lloyd.
Matt Wells (a future world welterweight champion - was eliminated in the quarter-finals by Frederick Grace, who won gold), Harold Holmes, George Jessup, Edward Fearman, Patrick Fee and Frank Osborne.
Ruben Warnes, William Childs, William Dees and Arthur Murdoch.
Harold Brewer, Albert Ireton and Ian Myrams.
1920 Olympics:
James Carter
Hugh Brown
1924 Olympics:
Alf Barber (became a leading pro and fought and lost to Johnny Hill for the vacant British flyweight title in 1927)
Patrick O'Hanrahan (aka Patrick O'Halloran)
John Courtis
1928 Olympics:
Cuthbert Taylor (1928 ABA flyweight champion and later a leading pro)
Jack Garland (1928 ABA bantamweight champion and later a leading pro)
Fred Webster (ABA fly, bantam and featherweight champion in 1926, 1927 and 1928 respectively and British lightweight champion as a pro)
Fred Mallin (younger brother of Harry Mallin)
1932 Olympics:
Tommy Pardoe (won five consecutive ABA flyweight titles, 1929-33, later a leading pro)
Harry Mizler (1932 ABA bantamweight champion, 1933 ABA lightweight champion and British lightweight champion as a pro)
Dave McCleave (ABA lightweight champion in 1931 and 1932, ABA welterweight champion in 1934, British welterweight champion as a pro)
1936 Olympics:
Alf Russell
Albert Barnes
Freddie Simpson
Walter Pack
Tom Griffin
Vincent Stuart
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