Dick Garrard

Richard ( "Dick" ) Edward Garrard ( born November 21, 1911 in Geelong, Victoria, † 3 March 2003) was an Australian wrestler. Winner of a silver medal in the free style welterweight at the 1948 Olympic Games in London

Career

Dick Garrard began at the age of 15 years in 1926 with the rings. He concentrated, as is usual at that time in all Anglophile countries, on the free style. Throughout his career, he was a total of ten times Australian champion in free style in a light - welterweight or.

His international career began in 1934 with a victory at lightweight at the British Empire Games in London. He won there before G. North of England and Howard Thomas from Canada. In 1936 he started again at lightweight, at the Olympic Games in Berlin. He lost there but against Paride Romagnoli from Italy and the later Olympic champion Karoly Karpati from Hungary and ended up with it on the 12th Place. In 1938 he was in Sydney at the British Empire Games in turn winner at lightweight before Vernon Thomas from New Zealand and Alfred Harding from South Africa.

Was a result of the second world war, the international wrestlers career, as with many peers Ringer colleagues also interrupted. It would have been the best wrestler years of Dick Garrard with certainty.

So he had to wait until 1948 before he could go at a major international championship back to the start. These were the Olympic Games in London. Already 38 years old he succeeded there welterweight by winning the Olympic silver medal of the biggest success of his career. These helped him victories over Willi fear from Switzerland, Kalman Sovari from Hungary, A. Bhargava from India and Jean Leclerc from France. Against Leland Merrill from the United States, he narrowly lost on points (1:2) and Yasar Dogu of from Turkey he was shouldered. That he won the silver medal, had its basis in the regulations then in force, for although he had lost to Leland Merrill, he placed before this, because he had fewer absences points than this.

1950 Dick Garrard won for the third time at the British Empire Games, which were held in Auckland. In the lightweight he won against Morgan Plumb from Canada and Geroge Hobson from New Zealand. At the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, he came at lightweight to victories over Osvaldo Blasi from Argentina and Jack Ward from Ireland. However, after a defeat in the third round against Takeo Shimotori from Japan, he left and got away with it on the 10th Place.

In 1954 he started, now already 44 years as, once again at the British Empire & Commonwealth Games in Vancouver. In lightweight, he won it behind Godfrey A. Pienaar from South Africa and Ruby Leibovitch from Canada a bronze medal. He took in the same year also participated in the World Championships in Tokyo and trained to even off in the featherweight. He succeeded in Tokyo but only one victory over Mansuato Napilay from the Philippines. Counter Geza Hoffmann from Hungary and against Alan Rice from the United States, he lost and reached with these results the 7th Place.

1956 Dick Garrard wanted to start again at the Olympic Games, which were held in Melbourne, so in his native Australia. But he could no longer qualify for the Australian team itself. He then finished his career as an active wrestler. In the following years he worked in various management positions in both the Australian Wrestling Federation and the Australian Olympic Committee. He also received several prestigious awards. In 1970 he was, for example, the Order of the British Empire Members MBE, also he was inducted into the "Hall of Fame" of Australian sport.

International success

Note: all the competitions in free style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championships, Featherweight, to 62 kg Lightweight until 1939-66 kg thereafter up to 67 kg welterweight, to 73 kg body weight

Swell

• Journal athletics,
• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976
• Website of the Institute for Applied Training Science of the University of Leipzig,
• Website " www.wrestling.com.au "

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Profile of Richard Garrard at the Institute for Applied Training Science

• Australian
• Ringer (Australia)
• Olympian (Australia)
• Member of the Order of the British Empire
• Born in 1911
• Died in 2003
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