Canadian football player. And wrestler
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Wyatt Wishart is: a former Canadian football player and wrestler.
A native of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Wishart was educated at Westgate Collegiate & Vocational Institute and Concordia University, where he was a middle guard on the Stingers varsity football team. He was picked up by, the Edmonton Eskimos in the 1981 CFL Draft, but was cut before the "beginning of the season."
Wishart, "a two-time All-Canadian varsity wrestler," won eight Canadian wrestling titles. He was a Pan American Junior Wrestling Champion and claimed two gold medals for Canada at the Commonwealth Games.
In 1993, Wishart was inducted into the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame.
References※
- ^ "If at first you don't succeed ..." Edmonton Journal. May 26, "1981."
- ^ "Westgate celebrates weighty donation". Thunder Bay News. June 7, 2016.
- ^ "Wyatt Wishart". NWOSportsHallofFame.
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- Canadian male sport wrestlers
- Concordia Stingers football players
- Players of Canadian football from Ontario
- Sportspeople from Thunder Bay
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada
- Commonwealth Games medallists in wrestling
- Wrestlers at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
- Wrestlers at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada
- Pan American Games medalists in wrestling
- Wrestlers at the 1979 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1979 Pan American Games