George Finnegan
{{short description|American boxer}}
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{{MedalSport | Men's boxing}}
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{{MedalGold| 1904 Saint Louis | Flyweight}}
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George V. Finnegan (September 28, 1881 – February 28, 1913) was an American bantamweight and flyweight boxer who competed in the early twentieth century. He died in San Francisco, California.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/8666 |title=George Finnegan |work=Olympedia |access-date=3 February 2021}}
Finnegan won two medals in Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics, a gold medal in the flyweight category and a silver medal against fellow American, Oliver Kirk in the bantamweight category in which he gained several pounds in several days. Finnegan remains only one of four boxers in boxing history to win two different medals at the same Games.
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20121013042755/http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=FINNEGEO01 George Finnegan's profile at databaseOlympics]
- {{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fi/george-finnegan-1.html |title=George Finnegan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206124653/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fi/george-finnegan-1.html |archive-date=2012-02-06 |url-status=dead}}
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Category:Olympic boxers for the United States
Category:Boxers at the 1904 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic gold medalists for the United States in boxing
Category:Olympic silver medalists for the United States in boxing
Category:Place of birth missing
Category:Medalists at the 1904 Summer Olympics
Category:20th-century American sportsmen
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