Ray Myland
British wrestler (1927–2014)
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Raymond Myland (30 July 1927 – 12 January 2014) was an English wrestler who competed for Great Britain at two Olympic Games.[1]
NationalityBritish (English)
Born30 July 1927
St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England
Died12 January 2014 (aged 86)
Kent, England
SportWrestling
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| Nationality | British (English) | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 July 1927 St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | 12 January 2014 (aged 86) Kent, England | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wrestling | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Welterweight/Middleweight | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | St Albans John Ruskin, Walworth | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Biography
Myland represented Great Britain in the 1948 Summer Olympics and in the 1952 Summer Olympics.[2]
He represented the English team at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games held in Vancouver, Canada,[3] where he won the bronze medal in the welterweight category.[4][5]
Four years later he won another bronze for the England team[6] at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff in the -82 kg division.[7]
Myland was a four-times winner of the British Wrestling Championships in 1947, 1951, 1952 and 1958.[8]
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