Thomas Dick

Gymnast Thomas Dick joined the Dundee Amateur Gymnastics Society from St. Paul’s Juniors, winners of the Scottish Junior Championship in 1901. He was an outstanding rope climber and was Scottish champion on many occasions in the early part of the 20th century. He was also a member of the Scotland team that dominated the International Championships against England, Wales and Ireland in that same era. Although Dick was not with Dundee when they won their first Adams Shield (for the British Team Championship) in 1900, he was in the squad when they beat Birmingham Dolobran to regain it in 1902.

Dick appeared at the 1908 London Olympics when he finished joint 16th in the individual all-round event. He could well have made his Olympic début at the Intercalated Games in Athens two years earlier, however, when he and Stanley Cooper of Leith were nominated by the Scottish Amateur Gymnastics Association as probable representative to go to the Games. It was Cooper, however, who made the Athens trip, along with Englishman Otto Bauscher. Dick later captained the Dundee Amateur Gymnastics Society team and also became a gymnastics coach and judge.