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World War II |
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| Among the post World War II amateurs, George Farquar
of Edinburgh who twice built his own yacht and sailed to Australia
was British champion five times in the 1950s and 60s. Wallace Booth
of Aberdeen won five British championships and a Commonwealth Games
silver medal in Jamaica in1966. |
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In 1976 Hugh
McAree (62kgs) won the Gold medal at the European Sombo championships
in Leningrad, the astonished Soviet officials protested on a technicality
and the gold was given to their own wrestler whom McAree
had beaten. This reaction by the Soviet team officials was not
appreciated by their national newspapers all of which carried banner
headlines which stated, "McAree is the real European Champion"
At the same championship Hugh
McGuinness won the Silver medal in the 90kgs category. |
| Iain
Duncan was British 100kgs champion four times and won a Bronze
medal at the 1974 Commonwealth Games and Albert
Patrick of St Andrews and the Metropolitan Police dominated
the British Super-heavyweight category in the 1980s. He won nine British
titles and three Commonwealth Games medals, two bronze and a silver.
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Graeme
English of East Kilbride has a similar record in the 1990s;
Graeme
is an all-rounder, in 1989 he won the Cumberland style Allweights
World Championship and the heavyweight Scottish Judo championship.
He made a comeback in 2000 and won the British Free style championship
in the 100kgs+ category a feat he repeated in 2001 and 2002. But who
was the best Scots wrestler of the century in the international styles,
amateur or professional? |
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