Reginald Pridmore
Cricket information
BattingRight-handed
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 14
Runs scored 315
Batting average 12.60
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 49
Catches/stumpings 7/–
Source: Cricinfo, 18 November 2022
Olympic medal record
Men's field hockey
Representing United Kingdom Great Britain
( England)
Gold medal – first place 1908 London Team competition

Reginald George Pridmore MC (29 April 1886 – 13 March 1918) was a field hockey player,[1] who won the gold medal with the England team at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.[2] 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.[3]

Pridmore was killed in action, aged 31, during the First World War,[4] serving as a major with the Royal Field Artillery near the Piave River in Italy.[5] He was buried at the Giavera British Cemetery nearby.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Reggie Pridmore". Olympedia. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Reggie Pridmore". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
  3. ^ "Olympians Who Played First-Class Cricket". Olympedia. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  4. ^ "Cricketers who died in World War 1 – Part 4 of 5". Cricket Country. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  5. ^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
  6. ^ Pridmore, Reginald George, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Retrieved 19 August 2008

External links


England squad – 1908 Summer Olympics – Gold medal (1st Title)
Authority control databases: People
Categories