Donald Stockton

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|birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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|death_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Donald Parker Stockton (22 February 1904 – 16 June 1978) was a Canadian Olympic medalist in freestyle wrestling. He won an Olympic silver medalist at the 1928 Summer Olympics, and also competed at the 1924 and 1932 Summer Olympics.

Early life

Donald Stockton was born in Montreal on 22 February 1904.

Career

Stockton began his Olympic career at the 1924 Summer Olympics in the freestyle welterweight division. At the 1928 Summer Olympics, he became the first Canadian to be awarded an Olympic silver medal in wrestling. Stockton final Olympic games were at the 1932 Summer Olympics. After his Olympic career, Stockton became a professional wrestler in 1933 and wrestled at the Mount Royal Arena.{{cite web|last=Foisy|first=Paul|title=Donald Stockton|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/donald-stockton/Donald|website=The Canadian Encyclopedia|accessdate=21 September 2017}}{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Awards and honours

In 1953, Stockton entered the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame{{cite web|title=Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame|url=http://olympic.ca/canadian-olympic-hall-of-fame/|website=olympic.c a|accessdate=21 September 2017}} and was inducted into the Canadian Amateur Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1975.{{cite web|title=Hall of Fame|url=https://wrestling.ca/programs/hall-of-fame|website=Wrestling.ca|accessdate=21 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017030508/https://wrestling.ca/programs/hall-of-fame|archive-date=17 October 2015|url-status=dead}} Stockton was posthumously inducted into the Quebec Sports Hall of Fame in 2016.{{cite web |title=Panthéon des sports du Québec |url=http://www.pantheondessports.ca/pages.asp?id=1005 |website=pantheondessports.ca |accessdate=21 September 2017|language=French}}