Roy Anthony Bridge
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Born | Sports shooting | 4 February 1921
Roy Anthony (Tony) Bridge, O.B.E. (4 February 1921 – 13 December 2000) was a Jamaican member of the International Olympic Committee ("IOC").
Bridge was active in sport from 1947 until his death in 2000. He was appointed to the International Olympic Committee IOC in 1973,[1] and was the eighth most senior member at the time of his death. He also represented the West Indies Federation at the 1960 Summer Olympics and Jamaica at the 1964 Summer Olympics.[2]
Biography
Bridge was born 4 February 1921, in
Sport
His involvement in sport was wide-ranging and included terms as the vice president of the Jamaica Boxing Board of Control (1947–62), President of the
Along with Sir Herbert Macdonald, Bridge was instrumental in organising the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica. This led to his interest in the Olympics and his eventual election to the IOC in 1973 at the 74th session of the IOC in Varna, Bulgaria. At that meeting four new members of the IOC were elected: Mr. Roy Anthony (Tony) Bridge for Jamaica, Mr. Manuel Gonzales Guerra for Cuba, Mr. Ashwini Kumar for India, Mr. Keba M’Baye for Senegal.
References
- ^ "The 114 People Who Run the Olympics". The New York Times. 1998. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
- ^ "Tony Bridge". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 29 June 2015.