Boxing at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Heavyweight

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The heavyweight was one of five boxing weight classes contested on the Boxing at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Like all other boxing events, it was open only to men. The boxing competitions were held on 27 October. The heavyweight was the middle class, allowing boxers of any weight.

1 Standings
2 Bracket
3 Competition
4 Sources

[edit] Standings

Place	Name	Nation
1	Albert Oldman	Great Britain
2	Sydney Evans	Great Britain
3	Frederick Parks	Great Britain
4	Harold Brewer	Great Britain
	Albert Ireton	Great Britain
	Ian Myrams	Great Britain

[edit] Bracket

Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
27 October		27 October		27 October

Evans	KO

Ireton	1st
		Evans	2

		Parks	1
Parks	2

Brewer	0
				Evans	1st

				Oldman	KO
Oldman	KO

Myrams	1st
		Oldman	-

		None	-
None	-

None	-

[edit] Competition

[edit] Quarterfinals

Oldman and Evans both won in the first round, Oldman winning with a right to Myrams' chin and Evans winning with a left to the chest of Ireton. Parks and Brewer went the full three, with Parks doing the lion's share of the hitting but Brewer taking it well.

[edit] Semifinals

Oldman received a bye for the round. Parks, who had given most of the punishment in the quarterfinals, found the situation reversed in the semifinals. Evans knocked him out of the ring once and to the mat twice. Parks fought hard, however, and not only made it through the three rounds but managed to land enough punches to deadlock the judges. Evans won by the referee's decision.

[edit] Final

In a somewhat anticlimactic final, Oldman put Evans on the rope shortly into the first, landing blow after blow to Evans' face. Within two minutes, Evans had dropped.

[edit] Sources

Official Report of the Games of the IV Olympiad (1908).
De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: "Boxing 1908". Accessed 8 April 2006. Available electronically at [1].