Herbie Hall

Hall was a notable Lancashire catch-as-catch-can wrestler and a ten-time British freestyle wrestling champion. He won the British freestyle (63 kg) featherweight championship, at the British Wrestling Championships from 1952–1957, 1961, and 1963, and the lightweight (69 kg) championship in 1958 and 1959.^[1][2]

Hall competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics and the 1956 Summer Olympics.^[3][4]

He represented the English team at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games held in Vancouver, Canada,^[5] where he won the silver medal^[6] in the featherweight category.^[7][8] He also represented represented the England team^[9] in the -68kg division at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales.^[10]