Bruce Sharp

Biographical information

RolesCompeted in Olympic Games
SexMale
Full nameBruce McLeod•Sharp
Used nameBruce•Sharp
Born24 March 1931 in Bexley, New South Wales (AUS)
Died12 January 2023
NOC Australia

Biography

Bruce Sharp was an Australian gymnast, photographer, and artist. In his youth Sharp would build his own high bar and parallel bars in his backyard where he would train. Sharp would eventually be selected to compete for Australia at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. The routines the team had to learn were originally written in French, so the team learnt them from pictures. The Australian team finished in seventh place, with Sharp’s best individual performance coming in the horse vault.

For 50 years Sharp had his own business in commercial industrial photography. In conjunction with his work, he began painting in oil and acrylic, with his work being shown in an exhibition in 2014. Sharp was a life member of Gymnastics New South Wales, and was a torch bearer for the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Results

Games Discipline (Sport) / Event NOC / Team Pos Medal As
1956 Summer Olympics Artistic Gymnastics (Gymnastics) AUS Bruce Sharp
Individual All-Around, Men (Olympic) 57
Team All-Around, Men (Olympic) Australia 7
Floor Exercise, Men (Olympic) 48
Horse Vault, Men (Olympic) =28
Parallel Bars, Men (Olympic) =53
Horizontal Bar, Men (Olympic) 56
Rings, Men (Olympic) 51
Pommelled Horse, Men (Olympic) 59