Harry Mitchell (boxer)
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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.
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- 1898 births
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- English male boxers
- English Olympic competitors
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- Boxers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers for Great Britain
- Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century English sportsmen