Horace Gwynne

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Horace ("Lefty") Gwynne (October 5, 1913, Toronto – April 16, 2001, Toronto) was a bantamweight professional boxer from Canada, who competed in the 1930s and won the gold medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics. He was still an amateur when he won the gold medal.

Gwynne left school after grade 8, weighing only 65 lb (29.5 kg). When he started to grow, he began working out in Stokley's Gym in Toronto to lose weight in order to become a jockey. At age nineteen he won the Canadian amateur flyweight championship in London, Ontario. He entered the 1932 Olympic trials as a bantamweight, a class permitting up to 118 lb (53.5 kg); he weighed 116.

He won the Canadian amateur bantamweight title, which sent him to the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, despite his having fought only fifteen bouts. He won the Olympic gold medal match against the German Hans Ziglarski, knocking him down in the second round. Immediately after the Olympics he turned professional. He won the Canadian professional bantamweight title in 1935 and held it until 1939, retiring undefeated.

Gwynne has been inducted into the Canadian Boxing Hall of Fame and the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame.

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