Laurie Bryce

Laurie Bryce
Personal information
NationalityBritish (Scottish)
Born (1943-01-25) 25 January 1943
Sport
SportAthletics
Event
Hammer throw
ClubEdinburgh University AC

Laurence "Laurie" Millar Bryce (born 25 January 1943) is a former track and field athlete from Scotland who competed at three Commonwealth Games.

Biography

Bryce studied at the University of Edinburgh and was a member of their athletics club.[1]

Bryce represented the Scottish Empire and Commonwealth Games team[2] at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica,[3] participating in one event, the hammer throw event.[4]

He won five consecutive hammer throw titles at the Scottish AAA Championships from 1965 to 1969.[5]

Bryce went on to compete for Scoptland at two more Commonwealth Games; finishing fourth in the hammer throw event at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games and eighth in the hammer event at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games.[6]

His son is Colin Bryce, a Winter Olympian and world's strongest man presenter.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Davies on 9 min. but still second". Birmingham Daily Post. 25 May 1964. p. 12. Retrieved 6 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  2. ^ "McGregor to captain Scotland's Empire Games team". The Scotsman. 13 June 1966. p. 14. Retrieved 6 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ "Scotland". Commonwealth Sport. Retrieved 6 December 2025.
  4. ^ "Scotland Kingston 1966". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 18 October 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. ^ "Scottish Championships". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 6 December 2025.
  6. ^ "The Honest Truth: World's Strongest Man gets bigger every year". The Sunday Post. 27 December 2017. Retrieved 6 December 2025.
  7. ^ "Games contender Bryce lives up to the family name". The Herald. 25 January 2002. Retrieved 6 December 2025.