Ronald Rawson
English boxer
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| Nationality | British (English) | |||||||||||
| Born | (1892-06-17)17 June 1892[1] Kensington, London, England | |||||||||||
| Died | 30 March 1952(1952-03-30) (aged 59) Kensington, London, England | |||||||||||
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| Sport | boxing | |||||||||||
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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.[2][3]
Amateur boxing career
He was the ABA Heavyweight Champion of Great Britain in 1920 and 1921.[4] 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.[5]
Although he only boxed as an Amateur, he did meet the professional boxer Jack Bloomfield in a "supposed 'exhibition' bout at a charity show at the Brighton Pavilion", where he suffered a knockout defeat in round three.[4]
Olympic results
- 1st round bye
- Defeated Samuel Stewart (United States)
- Defeated Xavier Eluère (France)
- Defeated Søren Petersen (Denmark)
References
- ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
- ^ "Ronald Rawson". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
- ^ Full birth name Archived 28 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine: PDF database at the BlackSheepIndex website.
- ^ a b Post-war ABA winner: Cambridge University Amateur Boxing Club website.
- ^ Rawson defeated Petersen, boxing heavyweight final, 1920 Olympics: GBRAthletics.com statistical website.
External links
- Ronald Rawson at BoxRec (registration required)
- Ronald Rawson at Olympics.com
- Ronald Rawson at Olympedia
- Ronald Rawson at Team GB
- Boxing record for Ronald Rawson from BoxRec (registration required)
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1904–1908: +158 lb (71.7 kg) · 1920–1936: +175 lb (79.4 kg) · 1948: +80 kg · 1952–1980: +81 kg · 1984–2012: 81–91 kg · 2016–: 82–91 kg
- 1904:
Samuel Berger (USA) - 1908:
Albert Oldman (GBR) - 1920: Ronald Rawson (GBR)
- 1924:
Otto von Porat (NOR) - 1928:
Arturo Rodríguez (ARG) - 1932: Santiago Lovell (ARG)
- 1936:
Herbert Runge (GER) - 1948: Rafael Iglesias (ARG)
- 1952:
Ed Sanders (USA) - 1956: Pete Rademacher (USA)
- 1960:
Franco De Piccoli (ITA) - 1964:
Joe Frazier (USA) - 1968: George Foreman (USA)
- 1972:
Teófilo Stevenson (CUB) - 1976: Teófilo Stevenson (CUB)
- 1980: Teófilo Stevenson (CUB)
- 1984: Henry Tillman (USA)
- 1988: Ray Mercer (USA)
- 1992: Félix Savón (CUB)
- 1996: Félix Savón (CUB)
- 2000: Félix Savón (CUB)
- 2004: Odlanier Solís (CUB)
- 2008:
Rakhim Chakhkiev (RUS) - 2012:
Oleksandr Usyk (UKR) - 2016: Evgeny Tishchenko (RUS)
- 2020: Julio César La Cruz (CUB)
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