Ronald Rawson

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| name = Ronald Rawson

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| nationality = British (English)

| sport = boxing

| birth_date = {{birth date|1892|6|17|df=y}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=Quh3FG4WhRGf4gSoNMli1g&scan=1|title=Index entry|accessdate=29 December 2021|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}

| birth_place = Kensington, London, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1952|3|30|1892|6|17|df=y}}

| death_place = Kensington, London, England

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Ronald Rawson Rawson {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MC2}} (17 June 1892 – 30 March 1952) was an English heavyweight professional boxer, who won a gold medal in Boxing at the 1920 Summer Olympics for Great Britain.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/3481 |title=Ronald Rawson |work=Olympedia |access-date=7 August 2021}}[http://www.blacksheepindex.co.uk/GREATWAR%20Ra-Rix.pdf Full birth name] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828115410/http://www.blacksheepindex.co.uk/GREATWAR%20Ra-Rix.pdf |date=28 August 2008 }}: PDF database at the BlackSheepIndex website.

Amateur boxing career

He was the ABA Heavyweight Champion of Great Britain in 1920 and 1921.[http://www.cuabc.org.uk/index.php/about/article/the_strange_and_terrible_history_of_varsity_boxing/ Post-war ABA winner]: Cambridge University Amateur Boxing Club website. In 1920 he won the Olympic Gold Medal in Antwerp in the heavyweight division (from 1920 to 1936 this was 79.38 kg/175 lb+), defeating Danish boxer Søren Petersen in the final.[http://www.gbrathletics.com/olympic/boxing.htm Rawson defeated Petersen], boxing heavyweight final, 1920 Olympics: GBRAthletics.com statistical website.

Although he only boxed as an Amateur, he did meet the professional boxer Jack Bloomfield in a "supposed 'exhibition' bout at a charity show at the Brighton Pavilion", where he suffered a knockout defeat in round three.