Herbie Hall
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| Nationality | British (English) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 March 1926 Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 26 February 2013 (aged 86) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Freestyle wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Bolton Harriers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Herbert Henry Hall (16 March 1926 – 26 February 2013) was a British wrestler who competed at two Olympic Games.
Biography
Hall was a notable Lancashire catch-as-catch-can wrestler and a ten-time British freestyle wrestling champion. He won the British freestyle (63 kg) featherweight championship, at the British Wrestling Championships from 1952–1957, 1961, and 1963, and the lightweight (69 kg) championship in 1958 and 1959.[1][2]
Hall competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics and the 1956 Summer Olympics.[3][4]
He represented the English team at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games held in Vancouver, Canada,[5] where he won the silver medal[6] in the featherweight category.[7][8] He also represented represented the England team[9] in the -68kg division at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales.[10]
References
- ^ Pashayev, Ruslan C. "Lancashire Wrestling (England)". traditionalsports.org. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
- ^ "List of British Senior Champions from 1904 – 2001" (PDF). Britishwrestling.org.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Herbie Hall Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
- ^ "Herbert Hall". Olympic.org.
- ^ "Games Wrestlers". Evening Despatch. 9 June 1954. Retrieved 19 September 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 19 September 2025.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 14 April 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
- ^ "1954 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "Wrestling Team for Cardiff". Nottingham Evening News. 17 May 1958. p. 8. Retrieved 10 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "1958 Athletes". Team England.