Tommy Holt
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| Nationality | British (Scottish) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | C.1910 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||
Event | Bantamweight | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Dalmarnock BC | ||||||||||||||
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Thomas Holt (c.1910 – date of death unknown) was a boxer who competed for Scotland and won a bronze medal at the British Empire Games.[1]
Biography
Holt was best known for representing Scotland at the 1930 British Empire Games, where he won the bronze medal in the bantamweight division at the 1930 British Empire Games in Hamilton, losing to eventual gold medallist Harry Mizler in the semi-final.[2] At the time of the Games he was a slaterer (slate roofs) by trade and living in Calross Street, Glasgow.[3]
He was the Scottish amateur champion and turned professional soon after the Games.[4] As a professional boxer, he was active between 1930 and 1935.[5]
References
- ^ "Tommy Holt". Team Scotland. Retrieved 19 August 2025.
- ^ "Empire Games Boxing". Daily News (London). 22 August 1930. Retrieved 19 August 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "UK and Ireland, Outward Passenger Lists 1930 Quebec". Ancestry. Retrieved 21 August 2025.
- ^ "Boxing". Daily Record. 10 September 1930. Retrieved 19 August 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Tommy Holt". Boxing History.org. Retrieved 21 August 2025.