Herbert Wright

Bolton’s Herbert Wright was one of only two Britons to win wrestling medals at the 1920 Olympics. The other was featherweight Bernard Bernard who, like Wright, won a bronze medal.

Wright did his selection for Antwerpen no harm after beating old adversary George Stott in the lightweight semi-final at the North of England Olympic trial at Halifax three months before the Olympics. Wright then went on to beat Manchester’s Bill Whatham in the final.

Earlier in his career, Wright reached the final of the 1913 Northern Counties Featherweight Championship, but lost to Stott. The following year Wright beat the defending champion Percy Cockings in the semi-final of the national championship before losing in the final, to Scott, again.

Wright, a World War I veteran of the Royal Army Medical Corps, was later a masseur and osteopath in his hometown of Bolton.