Roy Purchase Explained

Roy Purchase was an Australian wrestler who represented Australia in the 1938 British Empire Games.[1]

Career

Purchase was New South Wales and Australian featherweight champion in 1937.[2]

He won gold in the featherweight (up to 62 kg) wrestling category at the 1938 British Empire Games.[3] [4]

Purchase would have represented Australia at the 1940 Olympic Games but World War II meant they were cancelled.[5] Post-war, he wrestled in the NSW state championships in the lightweight division in 1947, reaching the finals in 1948.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2020-06-17 . Roy Purchase Results Commonwealth Games Australia . 2024-02-29 . commonwealthgames.com.au . en-AU.
  2. News: 6 November 1946 . Telegraph Gives Sports Trophies . 18 March 2024 . The Daily Telegraph . New South Wales, Australia . 22 . National Library of Australia . XI . 195.
  3. Web site: 2019-06-17 . Australia Gold Medals Sydney 1938 Commonwealth Games Federation . 2024-02-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190617162322/https://thecgf.com/results/games/3031/4/gold . 2019-06-17 .
  4. News: Skilful Wrestler . . 47 . New South Wales, Australia . 20 February 1940 . 1 March 2024 . 4 . National Library of Australia.
  5. Web site: Treloar . John . 2021-05-14 . Travails of Tokyo 2020 recall the lost Games of 1940 . 2024-03-17 . The Sydney Morning Herald . en.
  6. News: 6 December 1948 . Turf – Sport spots . 18 March 2024 . Daily Mirror . New South Wales, Australia . 15 (Late Final Extra) . National Library of Australia . 2346.

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