# Frederick Grace

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For the cricketer, see [Fred Grace](/source/Fred_Grace).

**Frederick Grace** (29 February 1884 – 23 July 1964) was a [lightweight](/source/Lightweight) [boxer](/source/Boxing). He fought as **Fred Grace** and at the [1908 Olympic Games](/source/1908_Olympic_Games) he became Olympic champion, defeating [Matt Wells](/source/Matt_Wells_(boxer)) along the way. He also became the British and European amateur champion.[1]

## Biography

Born in [Edmonton](/source/Edmonton,_London), [Middlesex](/source/Middlesex), he first became a boxer at [Eton Mission Boxing Club](/source/Eton_Mission). Using the facilities provided by Eton Mission, he also became proficient on the parallel bars.

In his early 20s, Fred incurred serious damage to his knee after an incident on his motorcycle. Fred declined the surgeon's advice to amputate and was determined to regain his fitness. Subsequently, from that time to the Olympics in 1908, he never figured in any title challenges.

After the Games, Grace went on to win four [Amateur Boxing Association](/source/England_Boxing) British [lightweight titles](/source/England_Boxing_National_Amateur_Championships_Lightweight_Champions) between 1909 and 1920, when boxing out of the Eton Mission ABC and Eton Boys BC respectively.[2] However, whilst in his prime, boxing was banned from the 1912 Olympics in [Stockholm](/source/Stockholm) and WW1 canceled out the Olympics of 1916, therefore Grace was unable to defend his title. By 1920, he was 36 years old. At the Olympics in [Antwerp](/source/Antwerp), he won just one bout in the [lightweight class](/source/Boxing_at_the_1920_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men's_lightweight) before being eliminated by the eventual winner of the title, [Samuel Mosberg](/source/Samuel_Mosberg), of the US.

Grace worked as a heating engineer for most of his life and retired in 1949. He died on 23 July 1964 at [Ilford](/source/Ilford), [Essex](/source/Essex), aged 80, after being struck by a car while out walking.

## References

1. ["Frederick Grace"](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/3416). *Olympedia*. Retrieved 18 March 2021.

1. ["Roll of Honour"](https://www.englandboxing.org/roll-of-honour/gender/male-championships/). England Boxing. Retrieved 14 January 2022.

## External links

- ["Fred Grace"](https://web.archive.org/web/20121105195304/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gr/fred-grace-1.html). Archived from [the original](https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gr/fred-grace-1.html) on 2012-11-05.

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