Charles Paddock

Charles Paddock
Full name	Charles William Paddock
nation	United States
birthday	August 11, 1900
place of birth	Gainesville
size	172 cm
Weight	75 kg
date of death	July 21, 1943
Place of death	Sitka
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	10.2 s ( 100 m ) 21.0 s ( 200 m )
society	Los Angeles Athletic Club
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 2 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Antwerp 1920 100 m gold Antwerp 1920 4 × 100 m silver Antwerp 1920 200 m silver Paris 1924 200 m

Charles William Paddock (born August 11, 1900 in Gainesville , Texas , † July 21, 1943 in Sitka , Alaska ) was an American athlete . He was a two-time Olympic champion and won a total of four medals at the Olympic Games over the course of his career .

biography

After serving in the US Army during World War I, Paddock studied at the University of Southern California . There he was accepted into the university's athletics team and developed into an excellent sprinter. In the first major sporting event after the end of the war, the 1919 Inter-Allied Games , paddock won the 100 and 200 meter competitions .

The following year, paddock for the USA took part in the Olympic Games in Antwerp . Here he celebrated his greatest successes. Over 100 meters he was Olympic champion in the time of 10.8 s ahead of Morris Kirksey (silver) , who also started for the USA, and the Briton Harry Edward . Over 200 meters, he won the silver medal in front of Harry Edward behind his compatriot Allen Woodring . With the US 4 x 100 meter relay , Paddock ran a world record together with Jackson Scholz , Loren Murchison and Morris Kirksey in 42.2 s and won his second gold medal. Paddock stood out for his strange habit of ending his races with a jump towards the finish line.

In 1921, Paddock improved the world record over 110 yards to 10.2 s. It was not until 1956 that the world record over 100 meters, slightly shorter than 110 yards, was also improved to 10.2 s.

At the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris , paddock qualified again for the finals over 100 and 200 meters, but remained less successful than four years earlier. In the 100 meter race he was fifth, over 200 meters he won a silver medal behind Jackson Scholz and before the British Eric Liddell . Paddock did not take part in the relay race.

In 1928 in Amsterdam Paddock took part in the Olympic Games for the third time , but missed the final over 200 meters.

At the US Athletics Championships, Paddock won over 100 meters in 1921 and 1924. He won over 200 meters in 1920, 1921 and 1924. Paddock held multiple world records, including over the 110-yard distance.

During his active career, Paddock worked in the management of various daily newspapers. Between 1925 and 1928 he also took part in several feature films. He also served since the end of World War I on the staff of Major General William Upshur . During the Second World War , Paddock and Upshur crashed with an airplane on July 21, 1943 near Sitka, Alaska. Both lost their lives in the crash.

Web links

Commons : Charles Paddock  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography (in English)
• Charles Paddock in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Charles Paddock in the Internet Movie Database (English)