David Thomas (boxer)
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| Full name | David John Thomas | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||
| Born | 29 August 1937 London, England | |||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||||
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David John Thomas (born 29 August 1937) is a British boxer.
Career[]
He competed in the men's heavyweight event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.[1] At the 1960 Summer Olympics, he lost to Josef Němec of Czechoslovakia.[1] He also represented England and won a silver medal in the -91 Kg category at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales.[2][3]
Thomas is a Amateur Boxing Association of England three times heavyweight champion (1957, 1958, 1959) when boxing out of the Polytechnic Boxing Club.[4]
References[]
- ^ a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Dave Thomas". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "1958 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "A.B.A Championships". Portsmouth Evening News. 26 April 1958. Retrieved 27 December 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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- 1937 births
- Living people
- British male boxers
- Olympic boxers of Great Britain
- Boxers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Boxers from Greater London
- Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing
- Boxers at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Heavyweight boxers
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