Harry Mitchell (boxer)
Personal information | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nationality | British (English) | |||||||||||
Born | (1898-01-05)5 January 1898 Tiverton, Devon, England | |||||||||||
Died | 8 February 1983(1983-02-08) (aged 85) Twickenham, London, England | |||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||
Sport | boxing | |||||||||||
Medal record
|
Harold James Mitchell (5 January 1898 – 8 February 1983) was an English boxer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He won the gold medal in the light heavyweight competition after beating Thyge Petersen in the final.[1]
Amateur career
Mitchell was a four-time Amateur Boxing Association champion in the light heavyweight class (1922–25), when boxing out of the Polytechnic Boxing Club.[2]
His legacy
Today, located in the UK, there is a leisure centre that bears his name - the Harry Mitchell Leisure Centre - which has a fully equipped Hammer Strength brand weights gym, a gym that has entry only for women, and classes for badminton, fitness and various other indoor team sports.
References
External links
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Harry Mitchell". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- v
- t
- e
- 1920: Eddie Eagan (USA)
- 1924: Harry Mitchell (GBR)
- 1928: Víctor Avendaño (ARG)
- 1932: David Carstens (RSA)
- 1936: Roger Michelot (FRA)
- 1948: George Hunter (RSA)
- 1952: Norvel Lee (USA)
- 1956: Jim Boyd (USA)
- 1960: Cassius Clay (USA)
- 1964: Cosimo Pinto (ITA)
- 1968: Danas Pozniakas (URS)
- 1972: Mate Parlov (YUG)
- 1976: Leon Spinks (USA)
- 1980: Slobodan Kačar (YUG)
- 1984: Anton Josipović (YUG)
- 1988: Andrew Maynard (USA)
- 1992: Torsten May (GER)
- 1996: Vassiliy Jirov (KAZ)
- 2000: Aleksandr Lebziak (RUS)
- 2004: Andre Ward (USA)
- 2008: Zhang Xiaoping (CHN)
- 2012: Egor Mekhontsev (RUS)
- 2016: Julio César La Cruz (CUB)
- 2020: Arlen López (CUB)
This biographical article related to boxing in England is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e