H. A. Wright of Bolton 1920 British Champion

Peter Wright is the name given in various places on the internet, e.g.

https://www.olympiandatabase.com/index.php?id=11142&L=1

https://www.olympic.org/peter-wright

That doesn't mean it's right, though. We all know that mistakes are often transferred from one web page to another.

I do think this is the case here and the Olympic representative was H.A. Wright of Bolton. That's what the Bolton Revisited page cited by Ron states.

https://www.boltonrevisited.org.uk/s-wrestling.html

Here's what I found out.

The Olympic trials were held at the Drill Hall, Halifax on 29th May. In the final H.A. Wright of Bolton defeated W.H. Whatham of Manchester.

I also found a photo labelled "1920. Group portrait of members of the British team of wrestlers including Henry Inman from Morley, other wrestlers and their coach at the Antwerp Olympics held in 1920."

On the reverse Henry Inman had written "'Dear wife, this is a photo taken of our billet showing myself, (seated right), with Wright of Bolton, C.S.M. Mason of Middlesborough, McDonald of Scotland and our coach, Mr. Webster of London.'"

There was a Peter Wright amateur wrestler, and he was the Mayor of Newport in Monmouthshire.

1920 was the year Nat Pendleton won his Silver medal. He later appeared in many films.

Apologies , I was wrong on the Olympics.

H.A Wright is mentioned here , a good article on the start of Bolton Wrestling.

https://www.boltonrevisited.org.uk/s-wrestling.html

Some conjecture as to which Wright won the bronze medal at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp.

Maybe Peter Wright is a mistake.

Where is this photo from Ruslan?

Ron, Hack, thanks these men Stott and Wright were the top Northern Counties (I mean East Lancashire & West Riding of Yorkshire) pre-WW1 amateur wrestlers who continued their amateur careers after the great war was over.

The Wright's year of birth being 1894 does make sense, right before the war that man was about 20yo. Stott I would think was couple of years older, he was a contender in the 1910-11 season.

Again there was NO pro wrestling around that time period in England so it does make sense, they never turned pros.

I don't know when this photo was taken, I am assuming right before the war.

There was wrestling in the 1920 Olympics. I can find H.A. Wright of Bolton Y.M.C.A. taking part in the Olympic trials at the Drill Hall, Halifax on 29th May but no sign of him going through to the Olympics.

You haven't been reading your Olympic Heritage in the Heritage Newsletter Ruslan.

There was a Wright there, but it was Peter Wright. Here are the competitors in the 1920 Olympics.

Edgar Bacon

In the 1920 middleweight freestyle event Edgar Bacon was granted a bye through to the second round where he lost to the Russian Alppo Asikainen.

Stanley Bacon

Gold medal winner in the 1908 Olympics Stanley Bacon lost his opening match (second round due to a bye) to the American Angus Frantz.

Philip Bernard

Philip Bernard won the bronze medal in the 1920 featherweight freestyle competition. A win over Jean Harrasse of France in the first round led to a semi final defeat by the eventual winner of gold, American Charles Ackerley. In the deciding match for bronze Philip Bernard defeated Randhir Shindes of India.

Henry Inman

Yorkshireman Henry Inman was granted a bye in the first round of the 1920 featherweight freestyle competition. His luck ran out in the second round when he lsot to the Indian Randhir Shindes.

Donald Archibald "Archie" MacDonald

Archie MacDonald competed in the heavyweight freestyle competition in 1920, and lost in the first round against Ernst Nilsson of Sweden.

George MacKenzie

George MacKenzie returned to the Olympics to participate in the 1920 lightweight freestyle competition.It was not to be third time lucky. He lost to the eventual silver medal winner Gottfrid Svensson, having been granted a bye in the first round.

Frederick Mason

Frederick Mason competed in the heavyweight freestyke competition in 1920, and lost in the first round against the American Fred Meyer.

Noel Rhys

Noel Rhys returned for his second crack at Olympic glory when he competed in the 1920 freestyle light heavyweight competition. It was not to be as Noel lost his first round contest, defeated by Finland's Emil Westerlund.

Walter Wilson

Walter Wilson and the American John Redman were both granted byes in the first round of the 1920 freestyle light heavyweight competition. They encountered each other in the quarter final with Walter Wilson eliminated after just 25 seconds.

Peter Wright (Bronze medal winner)

Peter Wright took the bronze medal in the 1920 freestyle lightweight competition. A bye in the first round led to victory over Henri Joudio of France and then a loss against Sweden's Gottfrid Svenson. Peter Wright then defeated Auguste Thijs of Belgium to win the bronze medal.

You would expect amateurs to keep records.;

I can't see any evidence and I don't think they had wrestling in the 1920 Olympics.

If I have spotted the guy in question , then he was Herbert A Wright , born 1894 in Bolton and went on to be a Masseur/ Astheopath

He certainly was well placed for the best part of a decade in the amateurs so may have won something incorrectly reported.