Reggie Pridmore

For the English motorcycle racer, see Reg Pridmore.

Reginald Pridmore

Cricket information
Batting	Right-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 Great Britain ( England)
	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

• List of Olympians killed in World War I

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. 7 August 2014. 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

• Reggie Pridmore at ESPNcricinfo
• Reggie Pridmore at Olympedia