Thomas Nicholls (boxer)

Thomas Nicholls
Medal record

Men’s Boxing
Olympic Games
Representing United Kingdom
	1956 Melbourne	Featherweight
European Amateur Championships
Representing England
	1955 East Berlin	Featherweight

Thomas ("Tom") Nicholls (born 12 October 1931) is a former boxer from Wellington, Shropshire, Great Britain, who won the silver medal in the featherweight division (– 57 kg) at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. In the final he was defeated by Vladimir Safronov of the Soviet Union. He also competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics, where he was beaten in the second round by eventual gold medalist Pentti Hämäläinen from Finland.

Olympic results

1952 (as a Bantamweight)

1956 (as a Featherweight)

European Amateur Boxing Champions in Men's Featherweight

1951 – 2010: up to 57 kg

1951: Joseph Ventaja (FRA) 1953: Josef Kruza (POL) 1955: Thomas Nicholls (ENG) 1957: Dimitar Velinov (BUL) 1959: Jerzy Adamski (POL) 1961: Francis Taylor (ENG) 1963: Stanislav Stepashkin (URS) 1965: Stanislav Stepashkin (URS) 1967: Ryszard Petek (POL) 1969: László Orban (HUN) 1971: Ryszard Tomczyk (POL) 1973: Stefan Förster (GDR) 1975: Tibor Badari (HUN) 1977: Richard Nowakowski (GDR) 1979: Viktor Rybakov (URS) 1981: Richard Nowakowski (GDR) 1983: Serik Nurkassov (URS) 1985: Samson Khachatryan (URS) 1987: Mekhak Ghazaryan (URS) 1989: Kirkor Kirkorov (BUL) 1991: Paul Griffin (IRL) 1993: Serafim Todorov (BUL) 1996: Ramaz Paliani (RUS) 1998: Ramaz Paliani (TUR) 2000: Ramaz Paliani (TUR) 2002: Raimkul Malakhbekov (RUS) 2004: Vitali Tajbert (GER) 2006: Albert Selimov (RUS) 2008: Vasyl Lomachenko (UKR) 2010: Denis Makarov (GER)

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