David Young (discus thrower)
{{Short description|Scottish discus thrower}}
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| birth_place = Shotts, Scotland
| death_date = 1983 (aged 69)
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| sport = Athletics
| event = Discus throw
| club = Shettleston Harriers
Glasgow Police AC
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{{MedalCompetition|British Empire Games}}
{{Medal|Silver|1938 Sydney|Discus}}
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David Young was a Scottish athlete who specialised in the discus throw and won a silver medal at the 1938 British Empire Games.
Biography
Young, a Glasgow police officer by profession, was a member of a Harriers club in Shettleston and the Glasgow Police Athletic Club.{{cite news |title=Scottish discus legend and the tragedies that held him back |url=https://www.scotsman.com/sport/scottish-discus-legend-and-tragedies-held-him-back-305291 |work=The Scotsman |date=28 February 2019}}
Self coached, Young won his first Scottish Championship for discus in 1937 and the following year claimed a silver medal at the British Empire Games in Sydney, which was Scotland's only medal of the athletics competition.{{cite news |title=Legends of Scottish athletics finally given a voice |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/13155027.legends-scottish-athletics-finally-given-voice/ |work=HeraldScotland |date=11 April 2014 |language=en}}
After the Empire Games, Young finished second behind Adolfo Consolini in the discus throw event at the 1938 AAA Championships{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000104/19380716/152/0005 |title=Italian wins six-mile title |work=Western Mail |date=16 July 1938 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=19 January 2025 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000669/19380718/127/0004 |title=AAA Championships |work=Birmingham Daily Gazette |date=18 July 1938 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=19 January 2025 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=19 January 2025 }} and set a British record of 153.8 ft in winning the Scottish Championships in 1938.
The war and personal tragedy limited Young's sporting career. He had to raise five children on his own after his first two wives both died young. After the war, he became an inspector in the traffic department of the police force.
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Category:Scottish male discus throwers
Category:British male discus throwers
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1938 British Empire Games
Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Scotland
Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics