Terry Perdue (10 November 1940 – 19 August 1998) was a British weightlifter. He competed at the

1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 ( es, México 1968), were an international multi-sport eve ...

and the

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. Perdue was a scrap dealer in

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who was arrested along with two other men and charged with the theft of 41,000

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s of metal in 1971. He was sentenced to four years in prison but was acquitted on appeal after serving nine months, just in time to join the British Olympic team for the 1972 Games. He was one of the weightlifters featured in the

Mai Zetterling Mai Elisabeth Zetterling (; 24 May 1925 – 17 March 1994) was a Swedish film director, novelist and actor. Early life Zetterling was born in Västerås, Sweden to a working class family. She started her career as an actor at the age of 17 at D ...

-directed segment ''The Strongest'' in '' Visions of Eight''. He was described by

Robert H. Boyle Robert Hamilton Boyle Jr. (August 21, 1928 – May 19, 2017) was an environmental activist, conservationist, book author, journalist and former senior writer for ''Sports Illustrated''. In 1966, Boyle founded the Hudson River Fishermen's Associat ...

in the October 8, 1973 issue of '' Sports Illustrated'' as " bearded, stuffs 320 pounds into a six-

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frame and could be played in a film by

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."Boyle, Robert H. "Bulgars, Britons and Bombers," ''Sports Illustrated'', October 8, 1973.
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* 1940 births 1998 deaths British male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters for Great Britain Weightlifters at the 1968 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 1972 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Swansea Commonwealth Games medallists in weightlifting Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Wales Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Wales Weightlifters at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games Weightlifters at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games 20th-century British sportspeople Medallists at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games {{UK-weightlifting-bio-stub