Harry Mitchell (boxer)

English boxer

Harry Mitchell

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

boxing

Medal record

Representing Great Britain

Men's Boxing
	1924 Paris	Light heavyweight

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

^ "Harry Mitchell". Olympedia. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
^ "Amateur Boxing Championships". Birmingham Daily Gazette. 2 April 1925. Retrieved 31 December 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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.

Olympic boxing champions – men's light heavyweight

1920–1936: 160–175 lb (72.6–79.4 kg) · 1948: 73–80 kg · 1952–2012: 75–81 kg · 2016–: 76-81 kg