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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 December 1942 London, England | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 90 kg (198 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||
Event | middleweight / light-heavyweight | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ronald Sydney Grinstead (born 25 December 1942) is a retired British international wrestler who competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics. [1]
Ron Grinstead made his debut for Great Britain in the 1963 international match against France. [2]
He represented the England team [3] at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, where he participated in 82 kg middleweight weight category. [4]
At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico, he competed in the middleweight division. [5]
Two years later he won a bronze medal in the same event, at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland. He then competed in a third consecutive Games when he appeared at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games, in Christchurch, New Zealand. [6] [7]
In 1972, in between his second and third Commonwealth Games appearances, he competed in a second Olympic Games for Great Britain in Munich. [5]
Grinstead was a four-times winner of the British Wrestling Championships at middleweight in 1962, 1968 and 1970, and in light-heavyweight in 1972. [8]
