Ted Pepper was one of 12 members of the Birmingham & District Gymnastics Association that helped Great Britain win the team bronze medal at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.
Pepper took up gymnastics with the St. Silas’s Club in Aston, Birmingham, in 1896. He finished joint fourth in the English National Championship in 1909 and went on to win the title the following year. Unfortunately, business commitments prevented him from defending his title in 1911. He was, however, a member of the Birmingham Athletics Institute (BAI) team that won the Adams Shield for the British Team Championship that year. It was Pepper’s fourth Adams Shield win since 1906, when he was a member of the Dolobran Club, Birmingham’s first ever winners of the shield. Pepper later became a gymnastics coach and judge.
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