Jimmy Clark (boxer)

James G. "Jimmy" Clark (February 26, 1914 – September 12, 1994), also known as Jimmy Atkinson, was an American boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.[1]

He was born James Clark Atkinson in Norfolk, Virginia, to parents Ernest Atkinson and Beatrice Davis.[1][2]

At the 1936 Summer Olympics he was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the middleweight class after losing his fight to Henryk Chmielewski. After the Olympics, he turned professional with a career record of 19 wins and 20 losses.[1] His biggest professional win was a first round knockout of Tony Zale on February 21, 1938 in Chicago.[2]

Clark was inducted into the Chautauqua Sports Hall of Fame in 1983 and the Buffalo Boxing Hall of Fame in 1998.[2] An Army veteran of World War II, he died at the age of 80 in Jamestown, New York.[2]

Many of his close friends died in the LOT Flight 7 crash.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Jimmy Clark". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Jimmy Clark". Chautauqua Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  3. ↑ http://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/march-14-1980-boxers-die-plane-crash-13132329


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