Terry Evans (wrestler)
Appearance
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Birth name | Terrence Jesse Evans | ||||||||||||||
Born | Ashton upon Mersey, England | October 4, 1911||||||||||||||
Died | May 4, 1999 North Bay, Ontario, Canada | (aged 87)||||||||||||||
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Country | Canada | ||||||||||||||
Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||
Weight class | Middleweight | ||||||||||||||
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Terrence "Terry" Jesse Evans (October 4, 1911 – May 4, 1999) was a Canadian freestyle sport wrestler who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.[1]
He was born in Ashton upon Mersey, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
In 1936 he competed in the freestyle middleweight tournament.
At the 1934 Empire Games he won the gold medal in the freestyle middleweight class. Four years later he won again the gold medal in the freestyle middleweight competition at the 1938 Empire Games. He later moved to North Bay, Ontario where he founded the North Bay Canoe Club in 1968, along with his wife Jean.[2] He died there in 1999.[3]
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- 1911 births
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- Canadian male sport wrestlers
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada
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- English emigrants to Canada
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- People from Sale, Greater Manchester
- Sportspeople from Greater Manchester
- Sportspeople from North Bay, Ontario
- Wrestlers at the 1934 British Empire Games
- Wrestlers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Wrestlers at the 1938 British Empire Games
- Canadian sport wrestler stubs