Raymond MYLAND

Ray Myland was the 1947 British freestyle wrestling flyweight champion at the age of 20 and a year later competed in the London Olympics, losing to the eventual Greco-Roman lightweight gold medalist, Gustav Freij of Sweden. Myland went on to win three more British freestyle titles, welterweight (1951), lightweight (1952) and middleweight (1958). He appeared in his second Olympics in 1952. Representing England, Myland twice won bronze medals at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games, at welterweight in 1954, and middleweight in 1958. Myland was at one time the landlord of the Black Lion pub in St. Albans, and later retired to Leigh-on-Sea.