Doug Tomalin
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Full name | Charles Douglas Tomalin | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | English | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | August 20, 1914 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 19 December 1998 | (aged 84)|||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Charles Douglas Tomalin, CBE, DFC, AFC (20 August 1914 – 19 December 1998)[1] was an English diver who competed for Great Britain in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
In 1936 he finished ninth in the 10 metre platform event. At the 1934 Empire Games he won the silver medal in the 3 metre springboard event and in the high diving competition. Four years later at the Sydney Games he won the gold medal in the high diving contest and the silver medal in the 3 metre springboard event. Subsequently, he became a senior and decorated officer in the Royal Air Force, rising to the rank of air commodore.
References
[edit]- ^ Doug Tomalin at Olympedia (archive)
External links
[edit]- "Doug Tomalin Bio, Stats, and Results Sports-Reference.com". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- Barrass, M. B. "Air Commodore C. D. Tomalin". Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation.
Categories:
- 1914 births
- 1998 deaths
- English male divers
- Olympic divers for Great Britain
- Divers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Divers at the 1930 British Empire Games
- Divers at the 1934 British Empire Games
- Divers at the 1938 British Empire Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games medallists in diving
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- Recipients of the Air Force Cross (United Kingdom)
- Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)
- Medallists at the 1934 British Empire Games
- Medallists at the 1938 British Empire Games
- 20th-century English sportsmen
- British diving (sport) biography stubs