# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maurice-letchford
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:24:02.502Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maurice-letchford"
name: "Maurice Letchford"
slug: "maurice-letchford"
description: "Maurice Letchford was a Canadian wrestler. He was born in Pretoria, South Africa and lived in Montreal, Canada. He was Olympic bronze medalist in freestyle wrestling in 1928, welterweight class, after losing to Lloyd Appleton in the semifinal, and winning the bronze medal match. Letchford became a professional wrestler in 1932 and competed through the late 1940s. He was a well-known performer in Canada, Britain, and the United States. He later became a wrestling promoter in Canada and South Africa."
tagline: "Canadian wrestler"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maurice_Letchford.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
birthDate: "1908-08-27"
deathDate: "1965-08-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.44
  momentum:             3.75
  historical:           9.401512
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Летчфорд, Морис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Letchford"
    title: "Maurice Letchford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Letchford"
    title: "Maurice Letchford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Letchford"
    title: "Maurice Letchford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Letchford"
    title: "Maurice Letchford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D9%84%D8%AA%DA%86%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "موریس لتچفورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Letchford"
    title: "Maurice Letchford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Letchford"
    title: "Maurice Letchford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Letchford"
    title: "Maurice Letchford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Letchford"
    title: "Maurice Letchford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Letchford"
    title: "Maurice Letchford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6793288"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump