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Harry Carpenter

Sports Commentator
17 October 1925 to 20 March 2010

A former print journalist, Carpenter presented BBC coverage of tennis at Wimbledon, golf and the boat race, as well as magazine programme Sportsnight (1968-97). But he was most closely associated with boxing, commentating on fights around the world over five decades, forming particular bonds with Muhammad Ali and Frank Bruno.

- Read Harry Carpenter's Telegraph Obituary
- Read Harry Carpenter's BBC Obituary
- Read Harry Carpenter's Independent Obituary
- Read Harry Carpenter's Guardian Obituary