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Bernard Prendergast
Jamaican discus thrower
Bernard Leopold Sandow Prendergast (25 December 1911 – 30 October 1966)[1] was a Jamaican track and field athlete who competed for Great Britain in the 1936 Summer Olympics at Berlin, as Jamaica was not represented at that Olympics.[2]
Prendergast participated in the discus throw event at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, but did not qualify for the final, and his exact result is unknown. He had a personal best of 44.16 m (144 ft 10+1⁄2 in). He previously won the bronze medal in the discus throw competition, at the 1934 British Empire Games.[2][3]
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Prendergast was of British descent. He studied medicine in London, at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, from 1933-42.[4][2] While at the Berlin Olympics in 1936, he was involved in an accident involving a javelin that caused a fatality, which had a profound effect on him.[2]
