Wrestling at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games

Wrestling at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
Wrestling at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
Venue	Meadowbank Sports Centre
Location	Edinburgh, Scotland
Dates	16 to 25 July 1970

Wrestling at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games was the ninth appearance of Wrestling at the Commonwealth Games.^[1]

The events took place in one of the three sports halls forming part of the Meadowbank Sports Centre, which was built specifically for the Games, at a cost of £2.8 million.^[2]^[3] The sport featured contests in ten weight classes.

India topped the wrestling medal by virtue of winning five of the ten gold medals on offer.^[4]^[5]

Medal table

* Host nation (Scotland)

Medals won by nation with totals, ranked by number of golds—sortable
Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	India	5	3	1	9
2	Pakistan	4	2	2	8
3	Canada	1	5	3	9
4	England	0	0	3	3
5	New Zealand	0	0	2	2
6	Scotland*	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		10	10	12	32

Medallists

Weight	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light Flyweight	Ved Prakash	Ken Shand	Masih Sadiq Don Urquhart
Flyweight	Sudesh Kumar	Muhammad Nazir	David Stitt
Bantamweight	Sardar Muhammad	Herbert Singerman	Terence Robinson
Featherweight	Muhammad Saeed	Patrick Bolger	Randhawa Singh
Lightweight	Udey Chand	Muhammad Yaqub	Ole Sorensen
Welterweight	Mukhtiar Singh	Alfred Wurr	Gordon Mackay
Middleweight	Harishchandra Birajdar	Nick Schori	David Aspin Ron Grinstead
Light Heavyweight	Faiz Muhammad	Sajjan Singh	Claude Pilon
Heavyweight	Ed Millard	Bishwanath Singh	Muhammad Riaz
Super Heavyweight	Ikram Ilahi	Maruti Mane	Denis McNamara

Results

^[6]^[7]^[8]

Light flyweight 48kg

Winner	Loser	Score
Ken Shand	Don Urquhart	fall
Ved Prakash	Masih Sadiq	fall
Ved Prakash	Don Urquhart	fall
Ken Shand	Masih Sadiq	fall
Ved Prakash	Ken Shand	pts

Final positions: 1. Prakash 2. Shand 3. Sadiq, Urquhart

Flyweight 52kg

Winner	Loser	Score
Muhammad Nazir	David Simpson	fall
David Stitt	Nowell James Sinclair	pts
Sudesh Kumar	Muhammad Nazir	pts
David Simpson	Nowell James Sinclair	fall
Muhammad Nazir	David Stitt	pts
Sudesh Kumar	David Simpson	fall
Sudesh Kumar	David Stitt	fall

Final positions: 1. Kumar 2. Nzir 3. Stitt 4. Simpson 5. Sinclair

Bantamweight 57kg

Winner	Loser	Score
Bishambar Singh	Herbert Singerman	pts
Sardar Muhammad	Robert Grant	fall
Terence Robinson	Bishambar Singh	pts
Herbert Singerman	Robert Grant	fall
Sardar Muhammad	Terence Robinson	pts
Herbert Singerman	Terence Robinson	pts
Sardar Muhammad	Herbert Singerman	pts

Final positions: 1. Sardar 2. Singerman 3. Robinson 4. Bishambar 5. Grant

Featherweight 62kg

Winner	Loser	Score
Randhawa Singh	Raymond Geoffrey Brown	pts
Patrick Bolger	Kenneth Dawes	pts
Muhammad Saeed	John McCourtney	fall
Randhawa Singh	Kenneth Dawes	fall
Raymond Geoffrey Brown	John McCourtney	pts
Muhammad Saeed	Patrick Bolger	draw
Patrick Bolger	Randhawa Singh	fall
Muhammad Saeed	Raymond Geoffrey Brown	pts
Muhammad Saeed	Randhawa Singh	fall

Final positions: 1. Saeed 2. Bolger 3. Ranhawa 4. Brown 5. Dawes, McCourtney

Lightweight 68kg

Winner	Loser	Score
Muhammad Yaqub	Tam Anderson	pts
David Idle	R. J. Lauri	fall
Luigi Cuirlino	Ole Sorensen	draw
Udey Chand	Muhammad Yaqub	pts
David Idle	Tam Anderson	pts
Ole Sorensen	R. J. Lauri	fall
Udey Chand	Luigi Cuirlino	fall
Muhammad Yaqub	David Idle	pts
Udey Chand	David Idle	fall
Muhammad Yaqub	Ole Sorensen	pts
Udey Chand	Ole Sorensen	pts

Final positions: 1. Chand 2. Yaqub 3. Sorensen 4. Idle 5. Cuirlino 6. Anderson, Lauri

Welterweight 74kg

Winner	Loser	Score
Alfred Wurr	Hussein Mohammed	pts
Gordon Mackay	Wesley O'Brien	fall
Mukhtiar Singh	Peter Amey	pts
Alfred Wurr	Finlay Buchanan	pts
Mukhtiar Singh	Hussein Mohammed	pts
Gordon Mackay	Peter Amey	pts
Gordon Mackay	Finlay Buchanan	pts
Mukhtiar Singh	Alfred Wurr	draw
Alfred Wurr	Gordon Mackay	pts
Mukhtiar Singh	Gordon Mackay	pts

Final positions: 1. Mukhtiar 2. Wurr 3. Mackay 4. O'Brien 5. Amey, Hussein. 7. Buchanan

Middleweight 82kg

Winner	Loser	Score
Muhammad Bashir	Ron Grinstead	pts
Harishchandra Birajdar	David Aspin	pts
Nick Schori	Ronnie Mitchell	fall
David Aspin	Ron Grinstead	draw
Nick Schori	Muhammad Bashir	pts
Harishchandra Birajdar	Ronnie Mitchell	pts
Harishchandra Birajdar	Ron Grinstead	pts
Nick Schori	David Aspin	pts

Final positions: 1. Birajdar 2. Schori 3. Aspin, Grinstead 5. Bashir 6. Mitchell

Light heavyweight 90kg

Winner	Loser	Score
Donald Cantwell	Robert Nihon	fall
Sajjan Singh	Richard Barraclough	pts
Faiz Muhammad	Alastair McNeill	pts
Claude Pilon	Donald Cantwell	pts
Sajjan Singh	Alastair McNeill	fall
Faiz Muhammad	Richard Barraclough	pts
Sajjan Singh	Claude Pilon	draw
Faiz Muhammad	Donald Cantwell	fall
Faiz Muhammad	Claude Pilon	pts
Faiz Muhammad	Sajjan Singh	draw

Final positions: 1. Faiz 2. Singh 3. Pilon 4. Cantwell 5. Nihon 6. Barraclough, McNeill

Heavyweight 100kg

Winner	Loser	Score
Bishwanath Singh	Muhammad Riaz	pts
Ed Millard	H. Warren Hubber	fall
Ed Millard	Muhammad Riaz	fall
Bishwanath Singh	H. Warren Hubber	fall
Ed Millard	Bishwanath Singh	disq

Final positions: 1. Millard 2. Bishwanath 3. Riaz 4. Hubber

Wallace Booth of Scotland, was forced to withraw from the heavyweight category because he failed a fitness test shortly before his first match.^[6]

Super heavyweight +100kg

Winner	Loser	Score
Ikram Ilahi	Merv Holden	pts
Maruti Mane	A Tom Milat	pts
Ikram Ilahi	Denis McNamara	pts
A Tom Milat	Merv Holden	ret
Maruti Mane	Denis McNamara	pts
Ikram Ilahi	A Tom Milat	fall
Ikram Ilahi	Maruti Mane	both disq, 3 cautions

Final positions: 1. Ilahi 2. Mane 3. McNamara 4. Milat 5. Holden

References

^ "Scotland Edinburgh 1970". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^ Inglis, Simon (1987). Football Grounds of Britain. Collins Willow. ISBN 0-00-218249-1.
^ "Edinburgh builds athletes village". Aberdeen Evening Express. 29 June 1970. p. 6. Retrieved 17 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists - Wrestling". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 17 January 2026.
^ "Medal Standings Edinburgh 1970". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2026.
^ ^a ^b "Spectacular win by 14-year-old". The Scotsman. 23 July 1970. p. 22. Retrieved 17 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Wrestling". Birmingham Mail. 24 July 1970. p. 27. Retrieved 17 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Results in Full". The Scotsman. 25 July 1970. p. 10. Retrieved 17 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[1] "Scotland Edinburgh 1970". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[Inglis341-2] Inglis, Simon (1987). Football Grounds of Britain. Collins Willow. ISBN 0-00-218249-1.

[3] "Edinburgh builds athletes village". Aberdeen Evening Express. 29 June 1970. p. 6. Retrieved 17 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[4] "Commonwealth Games Medallists - Wrestling". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 17 January 2026.

[5] "Medal Standings Edinburgh 1970". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2026.

[TS-6] "Spectacular win by 14-year-old". The Scotsman. 23 July 1970. p. 22. Retrieved 17 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[7] "Wrestling". Birmingham Mail. 24 July 1970. p. 27. Retrieved 17 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[8] "Results in Full". The Scotsman. 25 July 1970. p. 10. Retrieved 17 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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