Who won a Middleweight Boxing gold medal for Great Britain at the Beijing Olympics?
"to the Games, competing in four out of the five badminton events. They did not win any medals, thus failing to reach the one medal target set by UK Sport. The mixed doubles pairing of Gail Emms and Nathan Robertson, who won silver in the 2004 tournament, progressed furthest amongst the British athletes, reaching the quarterfinals. A total of eight boxers qualified. David Price and Tony Jeffries both won bronze medals in the super heavyweight and light heavyweight divisions respectively. Middleweight James DeGale won a gold medal in the middleweight class. It was the first time that Great Britain has"
"Boxing at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Middleweight The middleweight was one of five boxing weight classes contested on the boxing at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Like all other boxing events, it was open only to men. The boxing competitions were all held on October 27. The middleweight was the second-heaviest class, allowing boxers of up to 158 pounds (71.7 kg). It was the only boxing event in which a non-British boxer won a bout. Reginald Baker from Australia (competing on the Australasia team) won three before losing to Johnny Douglas in the final. Ten boxers from three nations"
"Thomas Thomas (boxer) Thomas ""Tom"" Thomas (8 April 1880 – 13 August 1911), was a Welsh boxer, the first British middleweight boxing champion. He was born at Glynarthen, Cardiganshire but moved to Carncelyn Farm, Penygraig, in the Rhondda Valley of South Wales at an early age. Born at Glynarthen, Cardiganshire (the home of his mother) and then moving to Carnelyn Farm, he began boxing in a sideshow, touring with Freddie Welsh and Jim Driscoll. After winning the local Rhondda valley heavyweight ""championship"", he won a National Sporting Club middleweight competition in London. Eventually, in May 1906, he fought the English"
"James DeGale James Frederick DeGale, (born 3 February 1986) is a British professional boxer. He is a two-time former super-middleweight world champion, having held the IBF title twice between 2015 and 2018. At regional level he held the European and British super-middleweight titles between 2010 and 2012. DeGale represented Great Britain at the 2008 Olympics as an amateur, winning a gold medal in the middleweight division. He also won silver medals at the 2007 and 2008 EU Championships, and bronze at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. By later becoming IBF champion, he became the first British boxer ever to have won"
"at a catch-weight of 172-pounds. James DeGale James Frederick DeGale, (born 3 February 1986) is a British professional boxer. He is a two-time former super-middleweight world champion, having held the IBF title twice between 2015 and 2018. At regional level he held the European and British super-middleweight titles between 2010 and 2012. DeGale represented Great Britain at the 2008 Olympics as an amateur, winning a gold medal in the middleweight division. He also won silver medals at the 2007 and 2008 EU Championships, and bronze at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. By later becoming IBF champion, he became the first British"
"join the Ceylon force in 1910. He died on January 15, 1961, at the age of 77, in Upminster, London. Albert Oldman Albert Leonard Oldman (18 November 1883 – 15 January 1961) was an English super heavyweight boxer in the 1908 Olympics in London for Great Britain. Oldman was born in Mile End, London in 1883. His passage to Olympic gold was one of the smoothest ever as he knocked out his first rival within a minute. He received a bye in the semi-final and defeated Sydney Evans, his fellow Briton, in less than two minutes in the final. Oldman,"
"Albert Oldman Albert Leonard Oldman (18 November 1883 – 15 January 1961) was an English super heavyweight boxer in the 1908 Olympics in London for Great Britain. Oldman was born in Mile End, London in 1883. His passage to Olympic gold was one of the smoothest ever as he knocked out his first rival within a minute. He received a bye in the semi-final and defeated Sydney Evans, his fellow Briton, in less than two minutes in the final. Oldman, who served in the Royal Horse Guards, later became a policeman in the City of London Police. He emigrated to"
"Billy Joe Saunders Billy Joe Saunders (born 30 August 1989) is a British professional boxer. He held the WBO middleweight title from 2015 to 2018, and previously the European, British, and Commonwealth middleweight titles between 2012 and 2015. As an amateur, Saunders represented Great Britain at the 2008 Olympics, reaching the second round of the welterweight bracket. As of July 2018, Saunders is ranked as the world's best active middleweight by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, third by ""The Ring"" magazine, and fifth by BoxRec. Originally from Cheshunt, Saunders grew up in a Romanichal travelling community near Hatfield, Hertfordshire. His"
"the bouts won. If a boxer was knocked to the ground and cannot get up before the referee counts to 10 then the bout is over and the opponent wins. Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's bantamweight The men's bantamweight boxing competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held from 28 July to 11 August at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre. Twenty-eight boxers from 28 nations competed. Luke Campbell of Great Britain won the gold medal, defeating Ireland's John Joe Nevin in the final. Nevin took the silver medal and bronze medals were awarded to both semi-final"
"consisted of three periods where the boxers received points for every successful punch they land on their opponent's head or upper body. The boxer with the most points at the end of the bouts wins. If a boxer is knocked to the ground and cannot get up before the referee counts to 10 then the bout is over and the opponent wins. Boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Middleweight The men's middleweight boxing competition at the 1948 Olympic Games in London was held from 7 to 13 August at the Empress Hall in Earl's Court and the Wembley Arena."
"Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's bantamweight The men's bantamweight boxing competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held from 28 July to 11 August at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre. Twenty-eight boxers from 28 nations competed. Luke Campbell of Great Britain won the gold medal, defeating Ireland's John Joe Nevin in the final. Nevin took the silver medal and bronze medals were awarded to both semi-final losers. Like all Olympic boxing events, the competition was a straight single-elimination tournament. The competition consisted of 28 boxers who had qualified through various qualifying tournaments held in 2011 and"
"British boxer, in the semi-final round. He lost to China's Xiaoping Zhang in the Olympic Final Gold Medal match in Beijing on Sunday 24 August 2008. Following the final President Mary McAleese and Taoiseach Brian Cowen gave Egan some glowing tributes. """"I am delighted to learn of Kenny's wonderful accomplishment today in Beijing,"""" the President said. ""The people of Ireland are uplifted by this outstanding achievement which continues a tradition of Irish Olympic boxing excellence dating back to 1952."""""" Cowen echoed these remarks by saying """"Kenny fought a brave fight and gave everything in a wonderful bout of top class"
"Great Britain at the 1908 London Olympics. The bantamweight division featured six boxers. Five were British; one was French. Here are Thomas' results from that boxing tournament: Henry Thomas (boxer) Albert Henry ""Harry"" Thomas (1 July 1888 – 13 January 1963) was a British bantamweight professional boxer who won gold in Boxing at the 1908 Summer Olympics with a decision over John Condon. In 1909 he went to the United States, where he remained except for a trip to Australia in 1913 and a visit to England in 1947. He served in the United States Navy in World War I"
"Boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Middleweight The men's middleweight boxing competition at the 1948 Olympic Games in London was held from 7 to 13 August at the Empress Hall in Earl's Court and the Wembley Arena. Like all Olympic boxing events, the competition was a straight single-elimination tournament. The competition began with a preliminary round on 7 August, where the number of competitors was reduced to 16, and concluded with a final on 13 August. As there were less than 32 boxers in the competition, a number of boxers received a bye for the preliminary round. All bouts"
"Boxing at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Heavyweight The heavyweight was one of five boxing weight classes contested on the boxing at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Like all other boxing events, it was open only to men. The boxing competitions were all held on October 27. The heavyweight was the middle class, allowing boxers of any weight. Six boxers all from Great Britain competed. Quarterfinals Oldman and Evans both won in the first round, Oldman winning with a right to Myrams' chin and Evans winning with a left to the chest of Ireton. Frederick Parks and Brewer went the"
"met Detelin Dalakliev of Bulgaria in his closest bout of the competition, controversially edging it by a score of 16:15. His next opponent, Satoshi Shimizu from Japan- who had earlier been reinstated in the tournament by AIBA after a successful appeal after a defeat by Magomed Abdulhamidov was beaten by 20:11. Campbell beat Nevin in the final bout, and dropped the Irishman at the start of the third round, thus becoming the first bantamweight boxer to win Olympic gold for Great Britain since Henry Thomas in 1908. A first class postage stamp, depicting Campbell, was issued by Royal Mail and"
"in the movie ""Shiner"". Richie Woodhall Richie Woodhall (born 17 April 1968) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1990 to 2000. He held the WBC super-middleweight title from 1998 to 1999, as well as the Commonwealth middleweight title from 1992 to 1995, and the European middleweight title from 1995 to 1996. As an amateur, Woodhall won a gold medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games and bronze at the 1988 Summer Olympics, both in the light-middleweight division. Following his retirement from the sport, Woodhall has developed a broadcasting career with both the BBC and BT Sport as a"
"of England to fight in Madison Square Garden in an international series of bouts. He died on 16 January 1961 in Hornchurch in Greater London. He won the Amateur Boxing Association of England middleweight championships in 1899, 1901, 1903, 1907, and 1910. In 1936 he was a Boxing Official at the Olympic games, receiving an Official's medal from Adolf Hitler. He was later posthumously awarded an Olympic Bronze medal from the 1908 Olympic Games, when the rules where changed to allow 4th place to gain a bronze medal. Reuben Charles Warnes Reuben Charles Warnes (12 October 1875 - 16 January"
"800 and 1500 metres races. In the same games, Britain's men's 4 × 100 metre relay team of Marlon Devonish, Darren Campbell, Mark Lewis-Francis and Jason Gardener, all of African-Caribbean heritage, beat the favoured United States quartet to claim Olympic gold. British boxers of a Caribbean background have played a prominent role in the national boxing scene since the early 1980s. In 1995 Frank Bruno, whose mother was a Pentecostal laypreacher from Jamaica, became Britain's first world heavyweight boxing champion in the 20th century. Bruno's reign was shortly followed by British-born Jamaican Lennox Lewis, who defeated Evander Holyfield and Mike"
"1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union, defeating Miodrag Perunović of Yugoslavia, and losing to eventual silver medal winner Aleksandr Koshkyn of the Soviet Union, and as a professional won the Commonwealth light middleweight title, and was a challenger for the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) British light middleweight title against Jimmy Cable, and Lloyd Hibbert, his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. light middleweight to , i.e. middleweight. Nicky Wilshire is the younger brother of Deborah A. Wilshire (birth registered April→June 1956 in Bristol District), Luke W. Wilshire (birth registered July→September 1957 in Bristol District), and Stuart"
"Simon Vallily Simon Vallily (born 15 August 1985) is an English professional boxer. As an amateur, he was a member of the England elite squad as well as the Great British podium squad and won gold at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.<ref name=""www.gbboxing.org.uk/boxers/simon-vallily GB Boxing""></ref><ref name=""www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/oct/13/simon-vallily-commonwealth-games The Guardian"">The Guardian | Boxer Simon Vallily gets redemption with gold</ref> Fighting for the South Bank Amateur boxing club in Middlesbrough, Vallily was formerly on the books of Middlesbrough Football Club until disciplinary issues meant that his career in football ended prematurely. Vallily claimed that he started boxing after getting into trouble when"
"bout at a charity show at the Brighton Pavilion"", where he suffered a knockout defeat in round three. Ronald Rawson Ronald Rawson Rawson MC & Two Bars (17 June 1892 – 30 March 1952) was an English heavyweight professional boxer, who won a gold medal in Boxing at the 1920 Summer Olympics for Great Britain. He was the ABA Heavyweight Champion of Great Britain in 1920 and 1921. In 1920 he won the Olympic Gold Medal in Antwerp in the heavyweight division (from 1920 to 1936 this was 79.38 kg/175 lb+), defeating Danish boxer Søren Petersen in the final. Although"
"Harry Mizler Hyman Barnett ""Harry"" Mizler (22 January 1913 – March 1990) was an English boxer who competed for Great Britain in the 1932 Summer Olympics and won the British BBoC Lightweight title in January 1934. Mizler was born in Wicket Street, St Georges in the heart of the East End of London to Jewish parents. They had a fish stall in Watney Street Market and after leaving school he worked in the stall along with his brothers Moe and Judah, who also boxed. In his teens he won the Federation of Working Men's Club's Bantamweight championship, which he held"
"announced his retirement from boxing. Darren Barker Darren Barker (born 19 May 1982) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2013. He held multiple titles at middleweight, including the IBF title in 2013; the Commonwealth title from 2007 to 2009; the British title in 2009; and the European title from 2010 to 2011. As an amateur, Barker represented England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and won a gold medal in the light-welterweight division. Barker started his boxing career at a young age, he trained at Finchley and District Amateur Boxing club in New Barnet where he"
"Harry Mallin Henry William ""Harry"" Mallin (1 June 1892 – 8 November 1969) was an English middleweight amateur boxer. He came originally from Hackney Wick, his younger brother was the Olympic boxer Fred Mallin . He lived in Dartmouth Park, North London and worked as a police officer. Mallin was British Champion five years in a row from 1919 to 1923. He was also world champion in the middleweight class between 1920 and 1928. He never lost an amateur bout and never turned professional. In the 1920 Summer Olympics he won a gold medal in middleweight division, defeating Canadian boxer"
"Audley Harrison Audley Hugh Harrison, (born 26 October 1971) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2013. As an amateur he represented Great Britain at the 2000 Olympics, winning a gold medal in the super-heavyweight division and becoming the first ever British boxer to win Olympic gold in that division. Harrison turned professional the following year after signing a contract with BBC Sport, and went on to have seventeen fights on the network before their cancellation of all boxing broadcasts. In his professional career he challenged for the WBA, British, and Commonwealth heavyweight titles. In 2009,"
"Randolph Turpin Randolph Adolphus Turpin (7 June 1928 – 17 May 1966), better known as Randolph Turpin, and in the United States also as Randy Turpin, was the undisputed Middleweight Champion of the World. Turpin was an English boxer who was considered by some to be Europe's best middleweight boxer of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1951 he became world middleweight champion when he defeated Sugar Ray Robinson. Turpin was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2001. Born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, to a black father Lionel who was born in British Guyana now known as Guyana"
"Defeated Huseyin Dundar (Turkey) 24-16 Defeated Mirzhan Rakhimzhanov (Kazakhstan) 25-8 Lost to Joe Murray (England) 11-14 (quarterfinal) Defeated Claudio Marrero Guzman (Dominican Republic) 10-5 Defeated Veaceslav Gojan (Moldova) 13-2 Defeated McJoe Arroyo (Puerto Rico) 10-3 Lost to John Nevin (Ireland) 5-7 (quarterfinal) Defeated Joe Murray (Great Britain) 17-7 Lost to Veaceslav Gojan (Moldova) 6-13 China's Gu Yu caused an upset in the Olympic boxing tournament on Tuesday by defeating Britain's Joe Murray in the bantamweight category. Murray came into the competition as the world bronze medalist in the 54 kg division. Despite of that, his reputations made minimal impact as"
"co-founded a boxing club in Skelmersdale and for 35 years trained young boxers there. He died of a heart attack, aged 73, and was survived by four children. His grandson James Lloyd was named after him, and now currently competes for Cambridge University Boxing Club. Jimmy Lloyd James ""Jimmy"" Lloyd (5 July 1939 – 22 March 2013) was an English boxer. He won a bronze medal in the welterweight division at the 1960 Olympics, losing in the semifinals to the eventual winner Nino Benvenuti. After winning the Amateur Boxing Association of England light middleweight title in 1962 he turned professional"
"the bronze medal at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Mianyang, People's Republic of China after having 2000 (as a middleweight) 2004 (as a Light heavyweight) Utkirbek Haydarov Utkirbek Haydarov (Уткирбек Хайдаров; born January 25, 1974 in Andijon) is an Uzbekistani boxer who competed in the light heavyweight (81 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal. The aggressive southpaw won the middleweight world title six years earlier in Houston but lost his first match at the Olympics 2000 and moved up in weight. He qualified for the 2004 Athens Games by ending up in first"
"Clinton Woods Clinton Woods (born 1 May 1972) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1994 to 2009, and held the IBF light-heavyweight title from 2005 to 2008. At regional level he held the Commonwealth super-middleweight title from 1997 to 1998, the British light-heavyweight title from 1999 to 2000, and the European and Commonwealth light-heavyweight titles from 1999 to 2001. Woods was born in Sheffield, England. Growing up in tough surroundings, he was involved in a life of drugs and crime before taking up boxing as a way out. Woods started his professional career with a points win"
"semi final. On 16 October 2010 he fought Kris Hughes for the vacant Commonwealth Super-bantamweight title winning on points decision. His reign as champion was short-lived as he lost in his first defence to Jason Booth in February 2011. In 2012 he challenged Scott Quigg for the British Super-bantamweight belt, and despite knocking the unbeaten Quigg down in the fourth Arthur was stopped in the eighth round. <br> Jamie Arthur Jamie Arthur (born 17 December 1979 in Aberdeen) is a boxer from Cwmbran, Wales, who won the gold medal in the men's lightweight division at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in"
"Pat McAteer Pat ""PatMac"" McAteer (17 March 1932 — 30 April 2009 (aged 77)) born in Birkenhead was an English professional light middle/middle/light heavyweight boxer of the 1950s who won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) British middleweight title, and British Empire middleweight title, and was a challenger for the European Boxing Union (EBU) middleweight title against Charles Humez, his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. light middleweight to , i.e. light heavyweight. Pat McAteer was the younger brother of Michael J. ""Mick"" McAteer (birth registered October→December in Birkenhead district), and the boxer William R. ""Billy"" McAteer (birth"