Harry Carpenter was presenter of programmes such as Sportsnight and Grandstand and anchored coverage of Wimbledon and golf tournaments.
18 Facts About Harry Carpenter
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Harry Carpenter began sports reporting as a sub-editor for several national newspapers.
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Harry Carpenter was an avid supporter of Crystal Palace FC, the local team in South Norwood.
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Harry Carpenter joined the BBC in 1949 and was the corporation's full-time boxing correspondent from 1962 until his retirement in 1994, when Jim Neilly replaced him in that capacity.
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Harry Carpenter served as a boxing columnist for the Sporting Record from 1950 to 1954.
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Harry Carpenter then worked for the Daily Mail as a boxing writer and sports columnist from 1954 to 1962.
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Harry Carpenter wrote three books about boxing, produced the documentary, The Richest Prize in Sport, and served as the voice of the Hall of Fame series, Sports Archive and Great Moments in Sport.
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Harry Carpenter described the end of the historic boxing fight between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali in Zaire, in 1974, a fight which became known as "The Rumble in the Jungle", as "the most extraordinary few seconds that I have ever seen in a boxing ring".
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Harry Carpenter was a presenter of Sportsnight between 1975 and 1985 and a regular member of the broadcast team on Grandstand.
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Harry Carpenter covered all major golf tournaments from 1965 until his retirement.
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Harry Carpenter served as commentator on the Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race, and greyhound racing.
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Harry Carpenter anchored coverage of Wimbledon for the BBC from 1967 until 1993.
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Harry Carpenter's connection with greyhound racing began when he was a journalist for a national publication called the Greyhound Owner.
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Harry Carpenter later commentated on the annual BBC Television Trophy shown on Sportsnight.
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Harry Carpenter was appointed OBE in the 1991 New Year Honours.
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Harry Carpenter was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1991 when he was surprised by Michael Aspel at the Royal Oak, Canning Town, London.
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Harry Carpenter died in his sleep at King's College Hospital in South London in the early hours of Saturday morning, 20 March 2010, aged 84.
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Harry Carpenter had been unwell since the summer of 2009 when he had a minor heart attack.