Bill Coulthard

{{short description|American-born Canadian basketball player}}

{{for|the English footballer|Billy Coulthard}}

William Sanderson Coulthard (December 29, 1923 – December 18, 2005)[https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/bill-coulthard-1.html Profile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104161320/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/bill-coulthard-1.html |date=2012-11-04 }}, sports-reference.com; retrieved January 24, 2011. was a Canadian basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/bill-coulthard-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418101148/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/bill-coulthard-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Bill Coulthard Olympic Results |accessdate=17 June 2018}} He was born in Buffalo, New York.

Coulthard was a member of the Tillsonburg Livingstons basketball team which won the Senior Canadian Championships in 1952 and made up the bulk of the 1952 Canadian Olympic basketball team in Helsinki.[http://web4.uwindsor.ca/units/alumni/sportsHall.nsf/982f0e5f06b5c9a285256d6e006cff78/5734ffd332f548d585256dfd004ca7b5!OpenDocument University of Windsor Alumni Sports Hall of Fame] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929022754/http://web4.uwindsor.ca/units/alumni/sportsHall.nsf/982f0e5f06b5c9a285256d6e006cff78/5734ffd332f548d585256dfd004ca7b5!OpenDocument |date=2011-09-29 }}; accessed July 8, 2017. The Canadian basketball team was eliminated after the group stage in the 1952 tournament. He played all six matches.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

In 2013, he was inducted into the Canada Basketball Hall of Fame.[http://www.basketball.ca/en/page/hall-of-fame Canada Basketball Hall of Fame; accessed January 17, 2018.]