Bernard Prendergast

Bernarr Leopold Sandow Prendergast (25 December 1911 – 30 October 1966) was a British/Jamaican track and field athlete who competed for Great Britain in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Biography Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Prendergast was of British descent. He studied medicine in London, at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, from 1933 to 1942.

One month later he was selected to represent Great Britain at the 1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin because Jamaica had no participation in the Games at the time.

While training for the 1934 Empire Games, Prendergast was involved in an accident involving a javelin that caused an injury to a Japanese athlete called Sadako Yamamoto who was training for the World Games. The incident at the White City Stadium distressed Prendergast to the point that he initially withdrew from the 1934 Games.