Wrestling at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games

Wrestling at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
Wrestling at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
Venue	Christchurch Town Hall
Location	Christchurch, New Zealand
Dates	24 January to 2 February 1974

Wrestling at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games was the tenth appearance of Wrestling at the Commonwealth Games.^[1]

The events took place at the newly constructed Christchurch Town Hall^[2] in Christchurch, New Zealand, from 24 January to 2 February 1974 and featured contests in ten weight classes.^[3]

Canada topped the wrestling medal table by virtue of winning five gold medals and India won a medal in every class.^[4]

Medal table

* Host nation (New Zealand)

Medals won by nation with totals, ranked by number of golds—sortable
Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada	5	1	2	8
2	India	4	5	1	10
3	New Zealand*	1	0	2	3
4	England	0	3	0	3
5	Australia	0	1	3	4
6	Scotland	0	0	2	2
Totals (6 entries)		10	10	10	30

Medallists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light Flyweight 48kg	Mitchell Kawasaki (CAN)	Wally Koenig (AUS)	Radhey Shyam (IND)
Flyweight 52kg	Sudesh Kumar (IND)	Gordon Bertie (CAN)	John Navie (AUS)
Bantamweight 57kg	Prem Nath (IND)	Amrik Singh Gill (ENG)	Kevin Burke (AUS)
Featherweight 62kg	Egon Beiler (CAN)	Shivaji Chingle (IND)	Ray Brown (AUS)
Lightweight 68kg	Jagrup Singh (IND)	Joey Gilligan (ENG)	Stephen Martin (CAN)
Welterweight 74kg	Raghunath Pawar (IND)	Tony Shacklady (ENG)	Gordon Mackay (NZL)
Middleweight 82kg	Dave Aspin (NZL)	Satpal Singh (IND)	Taras Hryb (CAN)
Light Heavyweight 90kg	Terry Paice (CAN)	Netra Pal Singh (IND)	Maurice Allan (SCO)
Heavyweight 100kg	Claude Pilon (CAN)	Dadu Chaugule (IND)	Ian Duncan (SCO)
Super Heavyweight +100kg	Bill Benko (CAN)	Bishwanath Singh (IND)	Gary Knight (NZL)

Results

^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]

Light flyweight 48kg

Only three competitiors lined up for the light-flyweight division and included 16-year-old Wally Koenig.

Winner	Loser	Score
Mitchell Kawasaki	Wally Koenig	pts
Mitchell Kawasaki	Radhey Shyam	pts
Wally Koenig	Radhey Shyam	?

Final positions: 1. Kawasaki 2. Koenig 3. Shyam

Flyweight 52kg

Winner	Loser	Score
Gordon Bertie	John Geoffrey Navie	fall 8.33
Sudesh Kumar	Bruce McMahon	fall 7.17
Prem Nath	Bruce McMahon	fall
Sudesh Kumar	Gordon Bertie	pts
Sudesh Kumar	John Geoffrey Navie	fall 2.48

Final positions: 1. Kumar 2. Bertie 3. Navie 4. McMahon

Bantamweight 57kg

Winner	Loser	Score
Prem Nath	Amrik Singh Gill	pts
Kevin Joseph Burke	Barry Oldridge	pts
Amrik Singh Gill	Tim Wenzell	pts
Prem Nath	Kevin Joseph Burke	pts
Prem Nath	Tim Wenzell	pts
Amrik Singh Gill	Barry Oldridge	pts
Amrik Singh Gill	Kevin Joseph Burke	pts

Final positions: 1. Nath 2. Gill 3. Burke 4. Oldridge, Wenzell

Featherweight 62kg

Winner	Loser	Score
Egon Beiler	Ray Brown	pts
Shivaji Chingle	Andrew Roche	pts
Egon Beiler	Paul Toole	fall 4.41
Ray Brown	Andrew Roche	pts
Egon Beiler	Shivaji Chingle	fall 2.25
Ray Brown	Paul Toole	pts
Shivaji Chingle	Ray Brown	pts

Final positions: 1. Beiler 2. Chingle 3. Brown 4. Toole, Roche

Lightweight 68kg

Winner	Loser	Score
Stephen Martin	Tam Anderson	fall 2.33
Jagrup Singh	Joey Gilligan	pts
Paul Dalley	Sidney Marsh	pts
Jagrup Singh	Tam Anderson	pts
Joey Gilligan	Sidney Marsh	pts
Stephen Martin	Paul Dalley	pts
Joey Gilligan	Paul Dalley	pts
Jagrup Singh	Stephen Martin	pts
Joey Gilligan	Stephen Martin	pts

Final positions: 1. Jagrup 2. Gilligan 3. Martin 4. Dalley 5. Marsh, Anderson

Welterweight 74kg

Winner	Loser	Score
Grant Lavallee	Bruce Akers	draw
Raghunath Pawar	Gordon Mackay	pts
Tony Shacklady	Grant Lavallee	pts
Raghunath Pawar	Bruce Akers	pts
Gordon Mackay	Grant Lavallee	pts
Tony Shacklady	Bruce Akers	pts
Tony Shacklady	Gordon Mackay	pts
Raghunath Pawar	Tony Shacklady	?

Final positions: 1. Pawar 2. Shacklady 3. Mackay 4. Akers, Lavallee

Middleweight 82kg

Winner	Loser	Score
Dave Aspin	Wesley O'Brien	fall 4.49
Satpal Singh	Charles Kelly	pts
Taras Hryb	Ronald Grinstead	pts
Dave Aspin	Ronald Grinstead	fall 1.55
Taras Hryb	Charles Kelly	pts
Satpal Singh	Wesley O'Brien	both disq
Dave Aspin	Taras Hryb	fall 2.34
Dave Aspin	Satpal Singh	pts
Satpal Singh	Taras Hryb	fall 3.47

Final positions: 1. Aspin 2. Satpal 3. Hryb 4. Grinstead, O'Brien, Kelly

Light Heavyweight 90kg

Winner	Loser	Score
Netra Pal Singh	Maurice Allan	pts
Terry Paice	Ilias Lee Michail	fall 4.28
Maurice Allan	Jim Downey	fall 4.46
Terry Paice	Netra Pal Singh	disq
Netra Pal Singh	Jim Downey	fall 2.44
Maurice Allan	Ilias Lee Michail	fall 2.18
Terry Paice	Maurice Allan	pts

Final positions: 1. Paice 2. Netra 3. Allan 4. Michail, Downey

Heavyweight 100kg

Winner	Loser	Score
Dadu Chaugule	Ian Duncan	pts
Claude Pilon	Anthony Jordanov	fall 1.17
Claude Pilon	Ian Duncan	fall 2.21
Dadu Chaugule	Anthony Jordanov	disq
Claude Pilon	Dadu Chaugule	pts

Final positions: 1. Pilon 2. Chagule 3. Duncan 4. Jordanov

Super Heavyweight +100kg

Winner	Loser	Score
Bill Benko	Willie Robertson	fall 1.14
Bishwanath Singh	Bakhtawer Singh Samrai	pts
Willie Robertson	Bakhtawer Singh Samrai	pts
Bill Benko	Gary Knight	fall 1.01
Bill Benko	Bishwanath Singh	both disq
Gary Knight	Willie Robertson	both disq

Final positions: 1. Benko 2. Bishwanath 3. Knight 4. Robertson 5. Samrai

References

^ "Medal Standings Christchurch 1974". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 7 February 2026.
^ "Christchurch 1974". New Zealand on Screen. Retrieved 7 February 2026.
^ "The Post Office, too, is ready... (advert)". The Press. 24 January 1974. pp. S6.
^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists - Wrestling". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 17 January 2026.
^ "Games results". Kent Evening Post. 28 January 1974. p. 32. Retrieved 7 February 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Commonwealth Games Results". Daily Mirror. 30 January 1974. p. 26. Retrieved 7 February 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Commonwealth Games Results". Daily Mirror. 31 January 1974. p. 26. Retrieved 7 February 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Wrestling". Wolverhampton Express and Star. 30 January 1974. p. 38. Retrieved 7 February 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.