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| Nationality |  Australia  England | |||||||||||||
| Born | 14 August 1928 Australia | |||||||||||||
| Died | 24 January 2015 (aged 86) Runaway Bay, Queensland, Australia | |||||||||||||
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Kenneth Arthur McDonald (1928-2015), was a male weightlifter who competed for England.
He represented Australia at the 1952 Summer Olympics finishing in sixth place in the middle-heavyweight category. [1]
He represented England and won a gold medal in the -110 Kg combined category at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales. [2] [3]
He was a member of the YMCA Club in central London from 1950 until 1980. [4]
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