Edgar Bacon

Bacon was born in Camberwell. Three of his brothers of Stanley Bacon, Ernest Bacon and Cecil Bacon were all British wrestling champions.^[2]

In 1908 he finished fifth in the freestyle middleweight tournament and ninth in the Greco-Roman middleweight tournament.^[2] Four years later he was eliminated in the second round of the Greco-Roman middleweight category.^[2] At the 1920 Olympic, he finished ninth in the freestyle middleweight class. His final Olympic appearance was in 1924 when he finished eleventh in the freestyle middleweight tournament.^[2]

He competed for the 1930 English team in the light heavyweight class at the 1930 British Empire Games in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.^[3] He won the silver medal after losing the gold medal match with Canadian Bill McIntyre.^[4]

Bacon was a four-times winner of the British Wrestling Championships at middleweight in 1927 and light-heavyweight in 1924, 1925 and 1927.^[5]

• Edgar Bacon at the International Wrestling Database
• Edgar Bacon at Team GB
• Edgar Bacon at Olympedia
• Edgar Bacon at InterSportStats