Reggie Pridmore

{{short description|English field hockey player and cricketer}}

{{for|the English motorcycle racer|Reg Pridmore}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Reginald Pridmore

| image =

| caption =

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling =

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 14

| runs1 = 315

| bat avg1 = 12.60

| 100s/50s1 = 0/0

| top score1 = 49

| hidedeliveries = true

| catches/stumpings1= 7/–

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/19065.html Cricinfo

| date = 18 November

| year = 2022

}}

{{MedalTop}}

{{MedalSport | Men's field hockey}}

{{MedalCountry|{{flagicon|GBR}} Great Britain
({{fh|England}})}}

{{MedalGold| 1908 London | Team competition}}

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Reginald George Pridmore {{post-nominals|MC}} (29 April 1886 – 13 March 1918) was a field hockey player,{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/18844 |title=Reggie Pridmore |work=Olympedia |access-date=29 March 2021}} who won the gold medal with the England team at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pr/reggie-pridmore-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418042321/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pr/reggie-pridmore-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Reggie Pridmore |accessdate=3 August 2015 |work=Sports Reference}} Pridmore set an Olympic record for most goals scored by an individual in an Olympic final in Men's field hockey with his 4 goals in England's 8–1 victory. This record stood till the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, where India's Balbir Singh Sr. scored 5 goals in India's 6–1 victory over the Netherlands.

Pridmore was also a cricketer, and played first-class cricket as a right-hand batsman for Warwickshire.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/lists/102/manual |title=Olympians Who Played First-Class Cricket |work=Olympedia |accessdate=28 July 2020}}

Pridmore was killed in action, aged 31, during the First World War,{{cite web|url=https://www.cricketcountry.com/articles/cricketers-who-died-in-world-war-1-part-4-of-5-167609 |title=Cricketers who died in World War 1 – Part 4 of 5 |work=Cricket Country |date=7 August 2014 |accessdate=28 November 2018}} serving as a major with the Royal Field Artillery near the Piave River in Italy.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War |accessdate=3 August 2015 |work=Sports Reference}} He was buried at the Giavera British Cemetery nearby.[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/639566 Pridmore, Reginald George], Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Retrieved 19 August 2008