Jim Savage (shot putter)

New Zealand athlete (1936–2023)

  • Athletics
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Medal record
Men's para athletics
Representing  New Zealand
Paralympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 1972 Heidelberg Shot put 3
Bronze medal – third place 1976 Toronto Shot put 3

James Leslie Herbert Savage MBE (1 July 1936 – 20 February 2023) was a New Zealand Paralympic athletics competitor. He won bronze medals at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Paralympics in the shot put 3 event.[1]

In the 1977 New Year Honours, Savage was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to paraplegics and sport.[2]

Savage died on 20 February 2023, at the age of 86.[3]

References

  1. ^ "IPC athlete biography". paralympic.org. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
  2. ^ "No. 47104". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 31 December 1976. p. 43.
  3. ^ "Jim Savage MBE #14". Paralympics New Zealand. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  • Jim Savage at Paralympics New Zealand
  • J. Savage at the International Paralympic Committee


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