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| Born | Shotts, Scotland | |||||||||||
| Died | 1983 (aged 69) | |||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||
| Event | Discus throw | |||||||||||
| Club | Shettleston Harriers Glasgow Police AC | |||||||||||
Medal record
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David Young was a Scottish athlete who specialised in the discus throw and won a silver medal at the 1938 British Empire Games.
Young, a Glasgow police officer by profession, was a member of a Harriers club in Shettleston and the Glasgow Police Athletic Club. [1]
Self coached, Young won his first Scottish Championship for discus in 1937 and the following year claimed a silver medal at the British Empire Games in Sydney, which was Scotland's only medal of the athletics competition. [2]
After the Empire Games, Young finished second behind Adolfo Consolini in the discus throw event at the 1938 AAA Championships [3] [4] [5] and set a British record of 153.8 ft in winning the Scottish Championships in 1938. [1]
The war and personal tragedy limited Young's sporting career. He had to raise five children on his own after his first two wives both died young. After the war, he became an inspector in the traffic department of the police force. [1]
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