Peter Benneyworth
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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 February 1938 Hammersmith, London, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 27 March 1974 (aged 36) Surrey, England | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||
Event | Bantamweight | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Caius BC, Battersea | ||||||||||||||
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Peter Stephen Benneyworth (5 February 1938 – 27 March 1974), was a male boxer who competed for England.
Biography
[edit]Benneyworth represented the England team during the boxing tournament at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games[1] in the -54 Kg division.[2][3]
He fought out of the Caius Boxing Club[4] and was twice the ABA Bantamweight champion of Britain in 1961 and 1962.[5][6]
He was part of the 1961 British team, which was labelled "the greatest win ever for a Great Britain team" after defeating the United States team ten bouts to nil.[7]
Benneyworth represented the 1962 English team at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia.[8] He competed in the bantamweight category,[9] where he won a bronze medal after losing to Sammy Abbey of Ghana in the semi-final round.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ "Joe Jacobs Boxes For England". Manchester Evening News. 12 May 1958. p. 8. Retrieved 28 September 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "1958 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "Fights" (PDF). Boxing History.
- ^ "Liverpool's A.B.A. title double". Liverpool Echo. 28 April 1962. Retrieved 3 January 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Foxwell's Wembley Rally Too Late:Taylor Disappoints". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 29 April 1961. Retrieved 9 January 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "On this day: The greatest ever win for the British amateur team". Boxing News. 2 November 2021. Retrieved 24 October 2025.
- ^ "Boxers for Empire Games". Staffordshire Sentinel. 18 August 1962. p. 8. Retrieved 25 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "England Perth 1962". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games - Perth, Australia - November 22 - December 1 1962". Amateur Boxing. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
Boxing record for Peter Benneyworth from BoxRec (registration required)