Gerry Martina

Gerry Martina (February 5, 1928 – April 1990) was a Dublin member of the 1956 and 1960 Irish Olympic wrestling teams, finishing a notable 4th in the Men's Light-Heavyweight Freestyle category in 1956 in Melbourne, Australia. Martina also won the British Senior male Light-Heavyweight Freestyle championship in 1956. He trained Drogheda United in the 1950s and the League of Ireland XI team in the 1960s.

Career

Martina was a rugby player before competing in wrestling. After competing in the Olympics, he was a masseur for Ireland's football team.[1]

Sources
  • DUFC A Claret and Blue History by Brian Whelan (2010)
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gollark: I think a much better approach for self-driving cars would just be to have rentable self-driving short-range electric cars in big cities and stuff, which would use only whitelisted roads where you can make sure to apply necessary standardization and add whatever infrastructure is needed.

References
  1. "Of gold, silver and bronze". Irish TImes. 1 November 2006. Retrieved 23 January 2018.

Gerry Martina at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

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