Albert Tyler
Albert Tyler ( Albert Clinton Tyler ; born January 4, 1872 in Glendale , Ohio , † July 25, 1945 in East Harpswell , Maine ) was an American athlete who was active as a pole vaulter at the end of the 19th century . Together with Robert Garrett , Herbert Jamison and Francis Lane, he was part of the athletics team that Princeton University sent to the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 .
In addition to Tyler, his compatriot William Hoyt , who was three years his junior, and three Greeks competed in the pole vault competition . The two Americans were superior, even though neither were part of the elite of their country at the time. Albert Tyler does not appear among the finalists in the American championships of those years. The 24-year-old justified his nomination, however, as he came in second behind Hoyt, who jumped 10 cm higher, with a skipped height of 3.20 m, surpassing the winning height of the American champion of 1896, Franklin Allis, by 3 cm . The two Greeks Evangelos Damascos and Ioannis Theodoropoulos came to 2.60 m.
No other achievements by Albert Tyler have come down to us. He could not win a university championship, and he did not take part in the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris.
literature
- The Olympic book. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2003, p. 21
Web links
- Albert Tyler in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tyler, Albert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tyler, Albert Clinton (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American pole vaulter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 4, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glendale (Ohio) |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 25, 1945 |
| Place of death | East Harpswell , Maine |