Wallace Booth

Booth was a member of a well-known Aberdeen sporting family. His brother Ashley Booth played football for St Johnstone and East Fife and another brother Sandy was a golfer.^[2]

Booth moved from Aberdeen to Lancashire and began wrestling in 1961, finishing runner-up in his first event at the Lancashire Championships. He then won the British light-heavyweight Championship.^[1] He became the British champion for the second time in April 1966 but this time at middleweight and was chosen as the captain of the Scottish wrestling team.^[2]

Booth represented the Scotland team^[3] at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, where he participated in 90kg light-heavyweight category,^[4] and won a silver medal.^[5]

Shortly after the Games, he won a silver medal at the 1966 Highland games.^[6] In 1967 he lived in Milnes Avenue in Leigh and represented the Bolton team.^[7]

In 1970 Booth, a printer by profession, was forced to withraw from the heavyweight category during the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh because he failed a fitness test shortly before his first match.^[8]

Booth won four British titles in total at the British Wrestling Championships (1964, 1966, 1967 and 1969).^[9]