Olympic Stalwart
Suttles appeared at age 18 on the Canadian Olympiad team for Tel Aviv 1964, for the first of his eight selections, including six in a row, over a period of 20 years. He usually played a large number of games in these team events, close to the maximum. Here are his complete results; his totals for Canada in Olympiads are: (+49 =43 −30), for 57.8 percent. He also played board one for Canada on its bronze medal winning team at the 1971 Student Olympiad.
- Tel Aviv 1964: 1st reserve, 5.5/10, +4 =3 −2;
- Havana 1966: 4th board, 10/18, +8 =5 −5;
- Lugano 1968: 2nd board, 11.5/17, +7 =9 −1;
- Siegen 1970: 2nd board, 8/16, +3 =10 −3;
- Mayagüez Student Olympiad 1971: 1st board, 6.5/11, +6 =1 −4, team bronze;
- Skopje 1972: 1st board, 9.5/17, +6 =7 −4;
- Nice 1974: 1st board, 10.5/19, +8 =5 −6;
- Valletta 1980: 2nd board, 3/8, +2 =2 −4;
- Thessaloniki 1984: 1st board, 5/11, +4 =2 −5.
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