Norman Borrett
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| Born |
1 October 1917 Wanstead, London, England | |||||||||||||
| Died |
10 December 2004 (aged 87) Colchester, England | |||||||||||||
| Senior career | ||||||||||||||
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| Taunton Vale | ||||||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||||
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| Great Britain | ||||||||||||||
| England | 30 | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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Norman Francis Borrett (1 October 1917 – 10 December 2004) was a Cambridge hockey and squash Blue, an England and Great Britain field hockey player, a county cricketer, a tennis player, and an England and Great Britain squash player. Described in his obituary in The Times as "arguably Britain's most talented post-war all-round amateur sportsman" He competd at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Biography
Borrett was born in Wanstead, London. He taught at Allhallows School at Roudson and later at Framlingham College where he had been a pupil. The story of Norman Borrett can be found in the book Master Sportsman by Richard Sayer.[1] This book is dedicated to Norman's widow, Mullie.
He captained England 11 times in his 30 hockey internationals. He was selected for the Olympic Trial[2] and subsequently played at the 1948 Summer Olympics, playing in all five matches as inside-left and scoring 10 goals.[3]
He won the British Amateur Squash Championship in the first five years after the war, from 1946 to 1950, not losing a set in any of the finals. He played 11 times for England at squash, and captained in most of them. He played cricket for Essex three times (1939 and 1946) and for Devon 50 times from 1947 to 1950. He once qualified for Wimbledon too, but didn't have time to compete in it.
He died in Colchester.
References
- ^ Master Sportsman: The Story of Norman Borrett by Richard Sayer. ASIN 0956287212.
- ^ "Olympic Hockey Trial". Evening News (London). 19 June 1948. Retrieved 19 July 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Olympians Who Played First-Class Cricket". Olympedia. Retrieved 28 July 2020.