(1923-02-20)20 February 1923 Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Died
12 February 2003(2003-02-12) (aged 79) Cape Town, South Africa
Sport
Sport
Weightlifting
William Ronald Eland[1] (20 February 1923 – 12 February 2003) was a South African weightlifter. He competed in the men's lightweight event at the 1948 Summer Olympics, representing Great Britain.[2]
^"Narratives about South Africa's black athletes need to be reclaimed and retold". The Conversation. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
^Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ron Eland Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
representing Great Britain. Prior to weight-lifting Eland worked as a schoolteacher. RonEland visited the Apollo School of Weightlifting, also known...
Operation Eland, also known as the Nyadzonya Raid, was a military operation carried out by the Rhodesian Selous Scouts at Nyadzonya in Mozambique on 9...
In early 2007, Ron Paul, a congressman from Texas, announced his candidacy for the Republican Party's nomination for president of the United States in...
a mixture of fuel and compressed air bled from two wing-mounted Napier Eland turboprops. The rotor was driven for vertical takeoffs, landings and hovering...
Archives. 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2012. "Cumbria flag flying outside Eland House". Department for Communities and Local Government. 2010. Retrieved...
African American Cinema, By S. Torriano Berry, Venise T. Berry, 2015 Eland, Ron (December 18, 2019). "Mother meets her daughter 54 years later". Sedona...
firepower was limited, Eland Mk4 armoured cars were also imported in quantity. A South African variant of the French Panhard AML, the Eland was frequently utilised...
Retrieved 2023-04-13. Sedona Red Rock News on the Arizona Memory Project Eland, Ron (2015-09-10). "Larson legacy changes hands". Journalaz.com. Retrieved...
convoy escort duties; occasionally deployed on "externals" in Mozambique. Eland-90 Mk 5/Mk 6 armoured car: South African-produced versions of the French...
Archived from the original on January 19, 2017. Retrieved January 18, 2017. Eland, Ron (February 10, 2016). "Film documents 50 years of Chicago". redrocknews...
(9–0), Isaac Macleod (9–0), Jimmy Cooper (6–0–1), Drew Brown (7–0), Ben Eland (4–0–1), Tom Young (4–0), Kaisee Benjamin (4–0), and Sam Evans (8–0–1)....
Commonwealth origin, but during the course of the conflict, new equipment such as Eland armoured cars were procured from South Africa. Several Polish-made T-55...
(Mammalia, Bovidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 36(1):154-168 Irwin, Ron (September 28, 2001). "Time Running Out for Exotic Tahrs in Cape Town". National...
fighter for his beliefs. He was a president without a party." Author Ivan Eland, in an update of his 2008 book Recarving Rushmore, rated all 44 US presidents...
Angola and Mozambique. Blindado Recon. 4,8 ton. Eland Mk. 4 6 cm D 4×4 m/1972 armoured car: South African Eland-60 version of the Panhard AML-HE60-7. Blindado...
Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-226-69710-9. Bar-On, Yinon M.; Phillips, Rob; Milo, Ron (21 May 2018). "The biomass distribution on Earth". Proceedings of the National...
were inflicted. On August 9, 1976, the Selous Scouts carried out Operation Eland, a raid on a ZANLA and FRELIMO controlled refugee camp at Nyadzonia in Mozambique...
Devon: Comprising the Herald's Visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620. H. S. Eland. Wallace, Willard Mosher (1959). Sir Walter Raleigh. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton...
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