Pat Kendall
Appearance
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Full name | Patrick Hume Kendall | ||||||||||||||
Nickname | "Pat" | ||||||||||||||
National team | Great Britain | ||||||||||||||
Born | 8 March 1927 Rochford, England | ||||||||||||||
Died | 18 July 1968 | (aged 41)||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Patrick Hume Kendall (8 March 1927 – 18 July 1968)[1][2] was an English competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Kendall competed in the round one preliminary heats of the men's 100-metre freestyle event, but he did not advance.[3] Two years later, he won a gold medal in the 3x110-yard medley relay as a member of the winning English team at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland, New Zealand.
See also
References
- ^ Pat Kendall's obituary
- ^ Pat Kendall at Find a Grave
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Pat Kendall". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-04. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
Categories:
- 1927 births
- 1968 deaths
- People from Rochford
- English male swimmers
- Male freestyle swimmers
- Olympic swimmers of Great Britain
- Swimmers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1950 British Empire Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
- British swimming biography stubs