Bernard Prendergast
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Jamaica
British Empire Games
Bronze medal – third place 1934 London Discus throw

Bernard Leopold Sandow Prendergast (25 December 1911 – 30 October 1966)[1] was a Jamaican track and field athlete who competed for Great Britain in the 1936 Summer Olympics at Berlin, as Jamaica was not represented at that Olympics.[2]

Prendergast participated in the discus throw event at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, but did not qualify for the final, and his exact result is unknown. He had a personal best of 44.16 m (144 ft 10+1⁄2 in). He previously won the bronze medal in the discus throw competition, at the 1934 British Empire Games.[2][3]

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Prendergast was of British descent. He studied medicine in London, at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, from 1933-42.[4][2] While at the Berlin Olympics in 1936, he was involved in an accident involving a javelin that caused a fatality, which had a profound effect on him.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Bernard Prendergast". Olympedia. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Bernard Prendergast", Sports Reference. Accessed 26 May 2016.
  3. ↑ Bertram, Arnold (18 February 2012). "Jamaica's Road to the Olympics - Part III". The Gleaner. Jamaica. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  4. ↑ Phillips, Bob. Honour of Empire, Glory of Sport: The History of Athletics at the Commonwealth Games, p. 19 (Parrs Wood, 2000).
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