Harry Holmes (boxer) explained

Harry Holmes
Nationality:British
Sport:Boxing
Birth Date:12 November 1878
Birth Place:Hampstead, London, England
Death Place:Hampstead, London, England

Henry Charles Berkeley Holmes (1878–1951) was a British boxer.[1] He competed in the men's lightweight event at the 1908 Summer Olympics.[2]

At the start of his boxing career, he won the 1905 Amateur Boxing Association British featherweight title, when boxing out of the 17th Middlesex Rifles BC.[3] [4] In 1908, he left the Columbia BC, joined the Polytechnic Boxing Club, won a second A.B.A title (this time at the lightweight class), and went on to compete in the 1908 Summer Olympics in that year.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Harold Holmes . Olympedia . 18 March 2021.
  2. Harold Holmes Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418042335/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/harold-holmes-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 4 November 2018.
  3. Web site: Roll of Honour. England Boxing. 14 January 2022.
  4. News: The Amateur Championships . Sheffield Daily Telegraph . 12 April 1905 . 14 January 2022 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription .