Tim Woolgar

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Tim Woolgar is a British chess boxer and event organiser who established and the London Chessboxing Club the first United Kingdom chessboxing institution.[1][2] He is a former holder of the title, British Heavyweight Chess Boxing Champion. He also promotes chess boxing events.

London Chessboxing promotes regular chessboxing events in the United Kingdom. Early events were held at Bethnal Green Working Men's Institute, subsequent events have been staged at the larger capacity in North London and SCALA, Central London.

On 10 September 2011 London Chessboxing staged its first event at the SCALA in King's Cross, central London. Two subsequent events have been staged at this venue on 16 March 2012 ("TwoTribes") and 29 September 2012 ("PrizeFightKnight"). During the Summer Olympics of 2012 planned a planned two-day chessboxing tournament at the London Pleasure Gardens had to be cancelled due to crowd-control and infrastructure problems at the host site. On 10 October 2012 London Chessboxing staged a sell-out event ("Battle Royale") in the Royal Albert Hall loading bay. This unusual subterranean arena was opened to the public for the occasion for the first and only time since the Royal Albert Hall was completed in 1871.

Woolgar has fought 12 times in Chessboxing with a record of 4-7-1.

The Chessboxing Organisation is registered as a charity in England and Wales (reg no.1131672) and is dedicated to bringing free chessboxing coaching to young people in London. The Organisation provides subsidised chess and boxing coaching to youth residents of Islington, North London.

Woolgar formerly worked in the media as one of the UK's first video-journalists being one of the original recruits to Associated Media's TV news service Channel One London.[3] Woolgar also worked as a video-journalist at the BBC's Science and Features department, an executive producer at ITV and as head of interactive programming at Endemol UK.

Biography[]

On 15 August 2008, Woolgar won 1st vacant title of British heavyweight championship by checkmate in 9th round against Exeter-based .[4]

On 24 April 2009, Woolgar had the world's first chess boxing match under amateur rules against , losing to a 7th round checkmate.[5]

In October 2011, Woolgar was elected to the post of director of marketing of the English Chess Federation with 95 votes cast in his favour, 89 votes cast in favour of 'none of the above' and six abstentions. He served his entire term, but did not stand for re-election in 2012.[6][7][8][9]

Record[]

Professional Chess boxing record
5 Fights, 4 Wins (0 KOs, 3 CMs) 1 Loss
Date Result Opponent Event Location Method Round Time
2010-10-16 Win Netherlands "Beyond The Super-Dome" Boston Dome, London, England Check-mate 9
2010-05-15 Win England "Super-Dome 2" Boston Dome, London, England Check-mate 7
2010-03-15 Loss Italy "Super-Dome" Boston Dome, London, England Check-mate 5
2009-10-09 Win England "Game of Kings" Bethnal Green, London, England Time Penalty 7
2009-08-15 Win England "An Exhibition of CHESSBOXING" Bethnal Green, London, England Check-mate 9
Wins vacant 1st title of GBCBO British Heavyweight championship.
Legend:   Win   Loss   Draw/No contest   Notes
Amateur Chess boxing record
1 Fights, 1 Loss
Date Result Opponent Event Location Method Round Time
2009-04-24 Loss England London, England Time Penalty 7
Legend:   Win   Loss   Draw/No contest   Notes

References[]

  1. ^ "Boxers play chess in new UK sport". BBC. 11 April 2008. Retrieved 1 November 2008.
  2. ^ "London ChessBoxing Club". Great Britain ChessBoxing. Archived from the original on 23 October 2008. Retrieved 1 November 2008.
  3. ^ "A Very British history of Videojournalism". View Magazine.
  4. ^ Tim Woolgar; Rajko Vujatovic. "Chessboxing in London's East End". wcbo.org. Archived from the original on 1 October 2009. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
  5. ^ Rajko Vujatovic; Louise Sizer. "Swedish ChessBoxing Sensation in London". Archived from the original on 19 January 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
  6. ^ Hill, John (20 August 2008). "Kings of the Ring". The Wharf. Retrieved 1 November 2008.
  7. ^ "Chessboxing". The ONE Show. 16 October 2009. BBC.
  8. ^ Nixey, Catherine (12 October 2009). "A left hook and checkmate – chessboxing hits London". The Times.
  9. ^ http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=3556&p=75083&hilit=woolgar+95#p75083

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Sporting positions
Preceded by
N/A
 1st UK Heavyweight Champion
15 August 2009 – ? 		Succeeded by


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