// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did Edgar Bacon say when he ran? I'm hogging the road.
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| Born | 9 October 1887 Camberwell, London, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 16 December 1963 (aged 76) Christchurch, Hampshire, England | ||||||||||||||
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Edgar Hugh Bacon (9 October 1887 – 16 December 1963) was an English freestyle and Greco-Roman sport wrestler who competed for Great Britain in the 1908 Summer Olympics, in the 1912 Summer Olympics, in the 1920 Summer Olympics, and in the 1924 Summer Olympics.[1]
Biography
[edit]Bacon was born in Camberwell. Three of his brothers of Stanley Bacon, Ernest Bacon and Cecil Bacon were all British wrestling champions.[2]
In 1908 he finished fifth in the freestyle middleweight tournament and ninth in the Greco-Roman middleweight tournament.[2] Four years later he was eliminated in the second round of the Greco-Roman middleweight category.[2] At the 1920 Olympic, he finished ninth in the freestyle middleweight class. His final Olympic appearance was in 1924 when he finished eleventh in the freestyle middleweight tournament.[2]
He competed for the 1930 English team in the light heavyweight class at the 1930 British Empire Games in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.[3] He won the silver medal after losing the gold medal match with Canadian Bill McIntyre.[4]
Bacon was a four-times winner of the British Wrestling Championships at middleweight in 1927 and light-heavyweight in 1924, 1925 and 1927.[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Edgar Bacon Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 4 February 2013. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 "Edgar Bacon". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- ↑ "Commonwealth Games Medallists". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 30 August 2025.
- ↑ "Wrestling". Daily Herald. 22 August 1930. Retrieved 24 August 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "List of British Senior Champions from 1904 to 2001" (PDF). British Wrestling. Retrieved 29 December 2025.
External links
[edit]- Edgar Bacon at the International Wrestling Database
- Edgar Bacon at Olympics.com
- Edgar Bacon at Team GB
- Edgar Bacon at Olympedia
- Edgar Bacon at InterSportStats
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