Alf Shawyer
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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 October 1907[1] Wandsworth, London | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 13 May 1971 (aged 63) Wandsworth, London | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||
Event | Middleweight | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Old Goldsmiths BC | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Alfred Samuel Shawyer (1907–1971) was an English boxer who competed for England.
Boxing career
[edit]Shawyer boxed out of Old Goldsmiths BC.[2]
He represented England at the 1934 British Empire Games[3] in London, where he competed in the middleweight division,[4] winning a gold medal.[5]
Shawyer won the 1933 Amateur Boxing Association British middleweight title, when boxing out of the Old Goldsmiths ABC.[6][7] He later defeated Johnny Williams of Brooklyn in the New York Golden Gloves tournament during 1935. On 8 December 1935, in the Oslo Colosseum, he fought Henry Tiller in England's first match against Norway.[8]
Personal life
[edit]He was a fireman by trade and lived at 81 Edward Street, Deptford in 1935.
References
[edit]- ^ "Births". Free BMD.
- ^ "Middleweights". Dundee Courier. 17 March 1932. Retrieved 6 September 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "London 1934 Team". Team England. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
- ^ "England London 1934". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 25 October 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
- ^ "Roll of Honour". England Boxing. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
- ^ "Amateur Boxing Association Championships". Nottingham Evening Post. 5 April 1933. Retrieved 2 January 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Alf Shawyer profile". BoxRec.
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