Ray Cazaux
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 July 1917 Liverpool, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 11 September 1999 (aged 82) Leeds, England | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||
Event | Bantamweight | ||||||||||||||
| Club | College Physical Culture Club, Bradford | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||
Raymond Cazaux (3 July 1917 – 11 September 1999) was an English freestyle sport wrestler who competed for Great Britain at two Olympic Games.[1]
Biography
[edit]Cazaux was born in Liverpool to a French father. He lived in Bradford and was a manager in a bakery.[2]
He competed for Great Britain at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, participating in the freestyle bantamweight tournament.[2]
He represented England at the 1938 British Empire Games[3] in Sydney, Australia, where he competed in the freestyle bantamweight class, winning a bronze medal.[4][5][6]
Ten years later he finished fifth in the freestyle bantamweight competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics.[2]
Cazaux was an eight-times winner of the British Wrestling Championships in 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1948, 1949 and 1950.[7]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Ray Cazaux's profile". Sports Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- 1 2 3 "Biographical information". Olympedia. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
- ↑ "Sydney 1938 Team". Team England. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
- ↑ "Wrestling Freestyle 57kg - Men Sydney 1938". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 27 May 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
- ↑ "More Records broken". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 7 February 1938. Retrieved 24 August 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Empire Games results". Evening Despatch. 9 February 1938. Retrieved 24 August 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "List of British Senior Champions from 1904 to 2001" (PDF). British Wrestling. Retrieved 22 December 2025.
.svg){kind=small}  | This biographical article relating to a British sport wrestler or wrestling coach is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. |
- 1917 births
- 1999 deaths
- Sportspeople from Liverpool
- Olympic wrestlers for Great Britain
- Wrestlers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Wrestlers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- British male sport wrestlers
- Wrestlers at the 1938 British Empire Games
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in wrestling
- Medallists at the 1938 British Empire Games
- Freestyle wrestlers
- British sport wrestler stubs