Albert Gutterson

Albert Gutterson
Albert Gutterson (1912)
Full name	Albert Lovejoy Gutterson
nation	United States
birthday	August 23, 1887
place of birth	Andover (Vermont) ,  USA
size	185 cm
Weight	82 kg
date of death	April 6, 1965
Place of death	Burlington, Vermont , USA
Career
discipline	Long jump
Best performance	Long jump: 7.60 m
society	Boston Athletic Association
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Stockholm 1912 Long jump

Albert Lovejoy Gutterson (born August 23, 1887 in Andover (Vermont) , † April 6, 1965 in Burlington (Vermont) ) was an American athlete . With a height of 1.85 m, his competition weight was 81 kg.

At the Olympic Games in 1912 , Albert Gutterson won the long jump with an Olympic record of 7.60 m, he had a lead of 39 centimeters over the Canadian Calvin Bricker , who came in second. Gutterson missed the world record set by Irishman Peter O'Connor since 1900 by just one centimeter.

After completing his engineering degree, Gutterson ran his own tool factory.

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• Bill Mallon / Ian Buchanan: Quest for Gold , New York City 1984 ISBN 0-88011-217-4
• Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Fields Athletics , Berlin 1999, published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV

Web links

Commons : Albert Gutterson  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Albert Gutterson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Albert Gutterson at the 1912 Olympics