Fred Mallin
Appearance
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Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
Born | [1] Hackney, London, England | 4 March 1902||||||||||||||
Died | Third quarter 1987 (aged 85) Haringey, London, England | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | boxing | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Frederick Granville Mallin (4 March 1902 – 1987) was an English boxer who competed for Great Britain in the 1928 Summer Olympics. He fought as Fred Mallin.[2]
Boxing career
[edit]In 1928, he finished fourth in the middleweight class after losing the bronze medal bout to Léonard Steyaert.[3] At the 1930 Empire Games he won the gold medal in the middleweight class after winning the final against Dudley Gallagher.
Mallin won the Amateur Boxing Association British middleweight title five times, when boxing out of the Eton Manor ABC. The feat saw him equal his older brother's (Harry Mallin) record of winning five titles.[4][5]
He died in London.
References
[edit]- ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
- ^ "Biographical information". Olympedia. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
- ^ "Olympic Games Finale". Western Morning News. 13 August 1928. Retrieved 2 January 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Roll of Honour". England Boxing. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
- ^ "Easy for Arsenal". Daily News (London). 17 March 1932. Retrieved 2 January 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
Categories:
- 1902 births
- 1987 deaths
- Boxers from the London Borough of Hackney
- English male boxers
- Middleweight boxers
- Olympic boxers for Great Britain
- Boxers at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Boxers at the 1930 British Empire Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- England Boxing champions
- Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing
- Medallists at the 1930 British Empire Games
- 20th-century English sportsmen
- English boxing biography stubs