Horace Johnson (weightlifter)

Johnson was a member of the Rhyl Barbell Weightlifting Club.^[2]

He represented the 1962 Welsh team^[3] at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia,^[4] where he participated in the 75kg middleweight category,^[5] and won a bronze medal.^[6] At the time of the Games, he was a welder for Messrs. Gibbs and was living in Marion Road, Prestatyn.^[2]

Four years later in 1966, he went to his second Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, competing for the 1966 Welsh team^[7] in the 75kg middleweight category^[8] and won another medal but this time went one better by winning silver.^[6]