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Australian rugby league player
Jim Armstrong
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Australian rugby league player
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Albury, Australia
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Sydney, Australia
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64 years
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Australia national rugby league team
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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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