Robert Harcus

Robert Harcus

Personal information
Nationality	British (Scottish)
Born	Eday, Scotland
Sport
Sport	Wrestling
Event	Middleweight
Club	Holyrood, Edinburgh
Medal record Boxing Representing   Scotland British Empire Games 1934 London middleweight

Robert Harcus was a wrestler who competed for Scotland and won a bronze medal at the British Empire Games (now Commonwealth Games). ^[1]

Biography

Harcus was best known for representing Scotland at the 1934 British Empire Games, where he won the bronze medal in the middleweight division of the wrestling competition at the 1934 British Empire Games in London, ^{[2] [3]} He finished third in his round robin pool matches to claim the bronze. ^{[4] [5]}

He was a member of the Holyrood wrestling club in Edinburgh ^[6] and was an Orcadian (a person from the Orkney Islands). ^[7] Orginally from Eday, he was a policeman with the Edinburgh City Police. ^[8]

References

1. "Scotland's Top Three Commonwealth Games - Wrestling". Team Scotland. 15 January 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
2. "Commonwealth Games Medallists - Wrestling". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
3. "Scotland London 1934". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
4. "Wrestling Concluded" . Aberdeen Press and Journal. 10 August 1934. Retrieved 25 August 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
5. "Home Nations Commonwealth Games Medallists". British Wrestling. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
6. "Wrestling" . Edinburgh Evening News. 17 February 1933. Retrieved 25 August 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
7. "Orcadian Wrestler" . Orkney Herald, and Weekly Advertiser and Gazette for the Orkney & Zetland Islands. 29 March 1933. Retrieved 25 August 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
8. "How Orcadian Wrestler fared at Empire Games" . Orkney Herald, and Weekly Advertiser and Gazette for the Orkney & Zetland Islands. 22 August 1934. Retrieved 25 August 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.