{{short description|British racewalker}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=November 2024}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Robert Bridge | image = | imagesize = | caption = | nationality = British (English) | sport = Athletics | event = Racewalking | club = Lancashire Walking Club | birth_date = {{birth date|1883|4|16|df=yes}} | birth_place = Chester-le-Street, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1953|7|17|1883|4|16|df=yes}} | death_place = Liverpool, England | pb = '''2 mile walk''': 13:48.8 (1912)<br> '''7 mile walk''': 52:06.8 (1914)<br> '''2 hr walk''': 24.781 km (1914) }} '''Robert Bridge''' (16 April 1883 – 17 July 1953) was a British racewalker who competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/68913 |title=Robert Bridge |work=Olympedia |access-date=24 April 2021}}</ref>
== Career == Bridge became the National 2 miles walk champion and the National 7 miles walk champion after winning both AAA Championships titles at the 1912 AAA Championships.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19120624/214/0014 |title=Athletic Championship |work=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |date=24 June 1912 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=16 November 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003329/19120624/106/0004 |title=Amateur Athletic Championship |work=Leicester Evening Mail |date=24 June 1912 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=16 November 2024 }}</ref>
Shortly after the 1912 AAA Championships, he competed in the 10 km walk at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden.<ref name="sports-reference">{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/br/bobby-bridge-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417101447/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/br/bobby-bridge-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Robert Bridge Olympic Results |accessdate=25 August 2014 |work=sports-reference.com}}</ref>
Bridge retained his 2 miles and 7 miles walk titles at the 1913 AAA Championships and the 1914 AAA Championships.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000711/19140704/056/0002 |title=Amateur Athletics |work=Lancashire Evening Post |date=4 July 1914 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=17 November 2024 }}</ref> After World War I, Bridge successfully returned to action to win the 2 miles walk at the 1919 AAA Championships and finished third behind Ugo Frigerio in the 2 miles walk event at the 1922 AAA Championships.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000560/19220701/111/0014 |title=AAA Championships |work=Daily Mirror |date=1 July 1922 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=1 December 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19220703/418/0016 |title=Athletic Championships |work=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |date=3 July 1922 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=1 December 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=16 November 2024 }}</ref>
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