Wyatt Wishart
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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.[1]
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.[2]
In 1993, Wishart was inducted into the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame.[3]
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Categories:
- Living people
- 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 gold 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 bronze medalists in wrestling
- Wrestlers at the 1979 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1979 Pan American Games