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Nationality | British (Scottish) | |||||||||||
Born | Edinburgh, Scotland | 14 December 1929|||||||||||
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Sport | Wrestling | |||||||||||
Event | Middleweight | |||||||||||
Club | Milton AWC, Edinburgh | |||||||||||
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George Hardy Farquhar (born 14 December 1929) is a British and Scottish wrestler who competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics. [1]
Farquhar was one of three wrestling representatives for the Scottish team [2] at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada, where he participated in the middleweight 82kg event. [3]
At the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, he participated in the men's freestyle middleweight category. [4] A plumber by trade, he was informed that he had been selected for the Olympics while working on an Edinburgh rooftop. [5]
In 1957 he defeated Jim Wilson of Dunfermline to win the Scottish light-heavyweight title [6] and was subsequently selected by Scotland, with George McKenzie and weightlifter Phil Caira for the Festival of Youth in Moscow, [7] a trip that saw the trio detained in Poland following visa issues. [8]
The following year he was selected for the 1958 Scottish team for the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, in the middleweight class again. [9]