John Gregory (athlete)

Jack Gregory medal table
athletics
United Kingdom
Olympic Summer Games
silver	1948 London	4 × 100 m

John Arthur "Jack" Gregory (born June 22, 1923 in Bristol , † December 15, 2003 in Bristol) was a British- English sprinter and rugby - outer three quarters . He belonged to the British team in the Olympic 4 x 100 meter relay in 1948 and 1952 and came to work for the England rugby union team .

After graduating from school in 1941, Gregory joined the British Army as a fitness trainer . In 1945 he was stationed in Huddersfield and played a game for Huddersfield , in the rugby league , for which he was later expelled from the English Rugby Football Union . He studied after the war in Dublin , where he played for the Dublin Wanderers and in 1946 also came to two select missions for the Royal Army. In addition, he was from 1947 to 1949 all-Irish champion over the two short sprint courses (100 yards and 220 yards). Before the Olympic Games in 1948, both the British and Irish teams competed for Gregory, through the intercession of the British armed forces he was only banned from the English Rugby Union Association for 1948 and competed for the United Kingdom at the Olympics.

At the Games in London he appeared in the relay and won the silver medal together with Jack Archer , Ken Jones and Alastair McCorquodale . In 1952 in Helsinki he was used again in the British sprint relay, which just missed the medals in fourth.

Between the games he became a successful rugby union selection and club player. Only two weeks after his suspension had expired, he came to his first and only assignment for the English national team on January 15, 1949 against Wales at the Five Nations , in 1952 and 1953 also for one assignment each for the Barbarians . By the end of his career in 1954, he scored 73 attempts in 129 games and a total of 225 points.

After playing, he became a sports commentator for Harlech Television , the regional division of the British television chain ITV in Wales and the Bristol area, and a sports columnist for the Bristol Evening Post .

Web links

• Jack Gregory in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Jack Gregory in ESPNScrum's database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Legends: Jack Gregory. (No longer available online.) In: Bristol Rugby website. 2010, archived from the original on February 17, 2013 ; accessed on April 4, 2011 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} John Arthur Gregory. In: Clifton Rugby Football Club History. Retrieved April 4, 2011 . 
3. ↑ John Arthur Gregory . Rugby's Olympians - 3rd In: Cliff Morgan (Ed.): Touchline Mag . The Magazine of the Rugby Memorabilia Society. tape  43 , April 2009, p. 24 . PDF file ( Memento from July 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )