Arnold Jackson

Arnold Jackson
Arnold Jackson during his Olympic victory in 1912
Full name	Arnold Nugent Strode Jackson
nation	United Kingdom
birthday	April 5, 1891
place of birth	Addlestone ,  UK
size	176 cm
Weight	67 kg
date of death	November 13, 1972
Place of death	Oxford , UK
Career
discipline	Middle distance run
Best performance	1500 m: 3: 56.8 min; 1 mile: 4: 21.4 min
society	University of Oxford
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Stockholm 1912 1500 m

Arnold Nugent Strode-Jackson (born April 5, 1891 in Addlestone , England , † November 13, 1972 in Oxford ) was a British athlete and Olympic champion .

In 1910 Jackson went to Brasenose College , Oxford . He rowed, played soccer and hockey, and became the captain of the hockey team. In this he also won the one- mile run three times for his college against Cambridge and was president of the Oxford University Athletics Club .

At the 5th Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 , he won the gold medal in the 1,500 meter run , ahead of the two Americans Abel Kiviat (silver) and Norman Taber (bronze).

The First World War , in which he was wounded several times, ended his sporting career. He then worked in industry and as a justice of the peace in the United States of America. In the 1960s he returned to Oxford, where he spent his old age.

Web links

• Arnold Jackson in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )