Jim Savage (shot putter)
New Zealand athlete (1936–2023) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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Full name | James Leslie Herbert Savage | |||||||||||||||||
Born | (1936-07-01)1 July 1936 | |||||||||||||||||
Died | 20 February 2023(2023-02-20) (aged 86) | |||||||||||||||||
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Country | New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||
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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]