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Terry Farnsworth (born 27 August 1942) is a Canadian former Olympic judoka. Born in Portland, Maine, he represented Canada in international judo competitions. He won the Canadian under-93 kg national championship in both 1972 and 1973, and competed in the men's half-heavyweight event at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Farnsworth also won a gold medal at the 1969 Maccabiah Games and a silver medal at the 1973 Maccabiah Games, both held in Israel.
At the 1969 Maccabiah Games in Israel, he won a gold medal in the light-heavyweight division. "Tourney results," Judo Illustrated, Volumes 4–5, 1970. He won the under-93 kg category at the 1972 Canadian Judo Championships, held in Halifax.
Farnsworth represented Canada in the men's half-heavyweight (under 93 kg) event at the 1972 Summer Olympics, finishing in 7th place. He defeated Imre Varga of Hungary and José Ibáñez Gómez of Cuba, but was eliminated after losses to eventual bronze medalist Paul Barth and European Judo Champion Helmut Howiller, both from West Germany.
Farnsworth recounted his experience during the Munich massacre at the 1972 Olympics, in which members of the Palestinian militant group Black September infiltrated the Olympic Village:
I was 50 feet away. I saw... the Arab with the mask, standing on the balcony. I saw the guy. I mean, we had to run underneath where the Israelis were, and one of my buddies had an Israeli friend, went to visit him, and he came back at 1:30 in the morning, and the terrorists came in at about 3:00. So he was an hour and a half away from being dead himself. That was horrible. We were 50 feet away from the whole thing. One interesting story was, separating us was the Korean housing, and when it first happened, I walked down to the Korean apartments, and I saw the door open in one apartment. I see a Korean guy sitting in the window with his rifle, facing the Arabs or where the Israelis were held. He told me he was an ex-American Marine, but he was a Korean citizen. He was on the rifle team. He said, “I’m going to get one of those f*cking Arabs!” ... But they came and took his rifle away!In 1973, Farnsworth won the Canadian Championships again in the under-93 kg category, this time in Whitehorse.
He was selected as the Standard-bearer for Team Canada at the 1973 Maccabiah Games in Israel, where he won a silver medal in the light-heavyweight division, losing in the final to American Olympian Irwin Cohen.
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