Kenneth Richmond

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Olympic medal record
Men’s Wrestling
Bronze Helsinki 1952 Heavyweight

Kenneth Richmond (July 10, 1926 – August 3, 2006) was a British wrestler, best known for striking the gong at the beginning of J. Arthur Rank films. He won a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics and was also a whale ship crewman before he got into the gong business. He stayed fit enough into old age to win medals for rollerblading and windsurfing in his 60s.

According to the BBC, before he died, he revealed to friends a closely-guarded secret that the gong was a papier-mâché stage prop.

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