Les Tarrant
Personal information
NationalityBritish
Born(1903-05-26)26 May 1903[1]
Coventry, England
DiedJanuary 1979 (aged 75)
Coventry, England
Sport
SportBoxing

Lester Mark Tarrant (26 May 1903 – 1979) also recorded as Leicester Mark Tarrant was a British boxer.[2] He competed in the men's bantamweight event at the 1924 Summer Olympics and fought as Les Tarrant.[3]

Tarrant won the 1921 and 1924 Amateur Boxing Association British bantamweight titles and the 1922 flyweight title, when boxing out of the Armstrong- Siddeley ABC.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Les Tarrant". Olympedia. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  3. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Les Tarrant Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
  4. ^ "Roll of Honour". England Boxing. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  5. ^ "British Amateur Championships". Belfast News-Letter. 5 April 1922. Retrieved 17 December 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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