Ray Myland
NationalityBritish (English)
Birth date30 July 1927
Birth placeSt. Albans, Hertfordshire, England
Death date12 January 2014 (aged 86)
Death placeKent, England
SportWrestling
EventWelterweight/Middleweight
ClubSt Albans
John Ruskin, Walworth

Raymond Myland (30 July 1927 – 12 January 2014) was an English wrestler who competed for Great Britain at two Olympic Games.[1]

Biography

Myland represented Great Britain in the 1948 Summer Olympics and in the 1952 Summer Olympics.[2]

He represented the English team at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games held in Vancouver, Canada,[3] where he won the bronze medal in the welterweight category.[4][5]

Four years later he won another bronze for the England team[6] at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff in the -82 kg division.[7]

Myland was a four-times winner of the British Wrestling Championships in 1947, 1951, 1952 and 1958.[8]

References

  1. ^ "www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/my/ray-myland-1.html". Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Biographical information". Olympedia. Retrieved 19 September 2025.
  3. ^ "Games Wrestlers". Evening Despatch. 9 June 1954. Retrieved 19 September 2025. – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  5. ^ "1954 Athletes". Team England.
  6. ^ "Wrestling Team for Cardiff". Nottingham Evening News. 17 May 1958. p. 8. Retrieved 10 October 2025. – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 19 September 2025.
  8. ^ "List of British Senior Champions from 1904 to 2001". British Wrestling. Retrieved 26 December 2025.