Kenneth Hampden Pridie (8 March 1906 – 4 May 1963) was an English

track and field Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...

athlete who competed in the

1930 British Empire Games The 1930 British Empire Games were the inaugural edition of what is now known as the Commonwealth Games, and was held in Hamilton, Ontario, from 16 to 23 August 1930. The event was organized by '' Hamilton Spectator'' sportswriter Bobby Robinso ...

and in the

1934 British Empire Games The 1934 British Empire Games were the second edition of what is now known as the Commonwealth Games, held in England, from 4–11 August 1934. The host city was London, with the main venue at Wembley Park, although the track cycling events wer ...

Biography

Pridie was born in

Bristol Bristol () is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region. Built around the River Avon, Bristol, River Avon, it is bordered by t ...

. Shortly before the

in Canada, Pridie finished third behind Jules Noël in the shot put event at the

1930 AAA Championships The 1930 AAA Championships was the 1930 edition of the annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA). It was held from 4 to 5 July 1930 at Stamford Bridge in London, England. The Championships c ...

. Then at the

he finished fourth in the

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field sport in which the participant athlete throws an oblate spheroid weight (object), weight called a discus in an attempt to mark a further distance than other competitors. It is a ...

event and sixth in the

shot put The shot put is a track-and-field event involving "putting" (throwing) a heavy spherical Ball (sports), ball—the ''shot''—as far as possible. For men, the sport has been a part of the Olympic Games, modern Olympics since their 1896 Summer Olym ...

competition. He took two third-place finishes in the shot and discus events at both the

1931 AAA Championships The 1931 AAA Championships was the 1931 edition of the annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA). It was held from 3 to 4 July 1931 at Stamford Bridge (stadium), Stamford Bridge in London, En ...

and

1932 AAA Championships The 1932 AAA Championships was the 1932 edition of the annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA). It was held from 1 to 2 July 1932 at White City Stadium in London, England. After 19 consecu ...

. Two years later he won the bronze medal in the shot put contest and finished sixth in the discus throw event at the

. Pridie was an

orthopaedic surgeon Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics ( alternative spelling orthopaedics) is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system. Orthopedic surgeons use both surgical and nonsurgical means to treat musculoskeletal ...

. He studied at the

University of Bristol The University of Bristol is a public university, public research university in Bristol, England. It received its royal charter in 1909, although it can trace its roots to a Merchant Venturers' school founded in 1595 and University College, Br ...

. With a Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of England he visited

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in Vienna, Watson-Jones in Liverpool and Girdlestone in Oxford. Twenty-eight years old he became a fracture surgeon at Bristol Royal Infirmary. He developed several devices for fracture treatment and was an eminent surgeon. Pridie is known for a particular cartilage repair technique where repair by fibrocartilage formation is stimulated by drilling small holes into the subchondral bone plate after surgical debridement of cartilage defects, known as the ''Pridie drilling'' technique. He died of a heart attack in 1963.Ken Pridie Obituary
. South West Orthopaedic Club. Retrieved on 2015-07-01.

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at ''TOPS in athletics'' 1906 births 1963 deaths Athletes from Bristol English male shot putters British male shot putters English male discus throwers British male discus throwers Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Athletes (track and field) at the 1930 British Empire Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1934 British Empire Games British orthopaedic surgeons English surgeons 20th-century British surgeons Medallists at the 1934 British Empire Games 20th-century English sportsmen Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in athletics {{England-shotput-athletics-bio-stub