Louis Baise
Louis Joseph Baise (born 4 May 1927) was a South African former Olympic wrestler.[1]
Biography[]
Baise is Jewish, and won gold medals at the 1950 Maccabiah Games and the 1953 Maccabiah Games in Israel.[2][3] He competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki for South Africa, coming in 6th in the Men's Flyweight, Freestyle.[1] Baise won the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Flyweight (−52.0 kg) Freestyle gold medal in Vancouver.[1][4][5]
References[]
- ^ a b c "Louis Baise Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics t". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
- ^ . The Canadian Jewish Chronicle https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=883&dat=19540730&id=6vFOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=e0wDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1804,1911973. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
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(help) - ^ Leon Feldberg (1976). South African Jewry. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists – Wrestling". Gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
- ^ Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town. 1971. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
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- Maccabiah Games gold medalists for South Africa
- South African Jews
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- Competitors at the 1953 Maccabiah Games
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