Jim Armstrong

Australian rugby league player
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroAustralian rugby league player
PlacesAustralia
wasAthlete Rugby league player
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
Birth14 July 1917, Albury, Australia
Death8 July 1981Sydney, Australia (aged 64 years)
Star signCancer
Sports Teams
Australia national rugby league team
The details

Biography

James Michael Armstrong (14 July 1917 – 8 July 1981) was an Australian sport wrestler and rugby league player. He was born in Albury, New South Wales, and worked as a police officer.

Armstrong was selected to play for Australia against Great Britain as a front row forward in the third and deciding Ashes test in 1946, becoming Kangaroo No. 233. He won a bronze medal in freestyle wrestling, heavyweight class, at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.

At the 1950 British Empire Games Armstrong won the heavyweight wrestling gold medal.

At the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Armstrong won the light heavyweight wrestling bronze medal.

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