Wallace Booth

Wallace Booth (1941–2023) was an international wrestler from Scotland who competed at the Commonwealth Games and won a silver medal.

Biography Booth was a member of a well-known Aberdeen sporting family. His brother Ashley Booth played football for St Johnstone and East Fife and another brother Sandy was a golfer.

Booth moved from Aberdeen to Lancashire and began wrestling in 1961, finishing runner-up in his first event at the Lancashire Championships. He then won the British light-heavyweight Championship. at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, where he participated in 90kg light-heavyweight category, and won a silver medal.

Shortly after the Games, he won a silver medal at the 1966 Highland games. In 1967 he lived in Milnes Avenue in Leigh and represented the Bolton team.

In 1970 Booth, a printer by profession, was forced to withdraw from the heavyweight category during the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh because he failed a fitness test shortly before his first match.

Booth won four British titles in total at the British Wrestling Championships (1964, 1966, 1967 and 1969).