Archie Dudgeon
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| Nationality | British (Scottish) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1911 Glasgow, Scotland | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 1959 (aged 47–48) Angus, Scotland | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||
Event | Heavyweight | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Premier Weightlifting and Wrestling Club | ||||||||||||||
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Archibald Forbes Dudgeon (1911 – 1959) was a wrestler who competed for Scotland at two British Empire Games (now Commonwealth Games)[1] and won a bronze medal in 1934.[2]
Biography
Dudgeon was best known for representing Scotland at the 1934 British Empire Games, where he won the bronze medal in the heavyweight division of the wrestling competition at the 1934 British Empire Games in London,[3][4] He finished third in his round robin pool matches to claim the bronze.[5][6]
He competed in the heavyweight division and weighed 21 stone.[7]
He also attended a second British Empire Games, when representing the 1938 Scottish team at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, Australia.[2] At the time of the 1938 Games he was a joiner and lived at 24 Craigton Road, Glasgow.[8]
Dudgeon was a two-times winner of the British Wrestling Championships at heavyweight in 1936 and 1937.[9]
References
- ^ "Scotland's Top Three Commonwealth Games - Wrestling". Team Scotland. 15 January 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ a b "Home Nations Commonwealth Games Medallists". British Wrestling. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists - Wrestling". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ "Scotland London 1934". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
- ^ "Wrestling Concluded". Aberdeen Press and Journal. 10 August 1934. Retrieved 25 August 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Empire Games Wrestling". Dundee Evening Telegraph. 8 August 1934. Retrieved 25 August 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Western Giant". Daily Record. 15 March 1934. Retrieved 20 August 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, Brisbane to London Arrival - 1 Apr 1938". Ancestry. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
- ^ "List of British Senior Champions from 1904 to 2001" (PDF). British Wrestling. Retrieved 31 December 2025.