Chris Mackintosh

Charles Ernest Whistler Christopher "Chris" Mackintosh (born October 31, 1903 in Heidelberg , German Empire , † January 12, 1974 in Haddington , Scotland ) was a British athlete.

Career

Mackintosh won the public schools championship in lawn tennis in doubles in 1921 . He then attended the University of Oxford and represented them in athletics , rugby and skiing ; both 1924 and 1925 Mackintosh won the duel Oxford against Cambridge in the long jump competition with 7.01 m each. On January 1, 1924 Chris Mackintosh came to Scotland in rugby at the Five Nations as an outer three quarters ("wing") to use.

At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, the 1.88 m tall and 80 kg heavy athlete in the long jump with a width of 6.92 m was the best Briton in sixth place. His personal best in the long jump was 7.25 m, set up in 1925. At the first Alpine World Ski Championships in 1931 , Mackintosh took 17th place in the downhill race and won the silver medal behind Austrian Gustav Lantschner in the long descent, which is not an official world championship discipline . At the 1938 World Bobsleigh Championship , the Briton won gold in the four-man bobsleigh with Frederick McEvoy , David Looker and Charles Green .

After leaving the university, Mackintosh worked as an alpine tour operator for Sir Henry Lunn Travel (now part of Lunn Poly ), between 1931 and 1944 in a leading position responsible for the organization of winter sports trips to Switzerland. The Briton was also president of the Kandahar Ski Club founded by Arnold Lunn in Mürren .

Chris Mackintosh was between 1927 and 1946 with Lady Jean Douglas-Hamilton (1904-1987), the daughter of Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton , married. The couple had four children who participated in alpine skiing competitions at the Winter Olympics: Sheena (* 1928), Vora (1929–1998), Douglas (* 1931) and Charlach (* 1935).

Web links

• Chris Mackintosh in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chris Mackintosh at espn.co.uk , accessed January 6, 2019.
2. ↑ Charles Ernest Whistler Mackintosh at thepeerage.com , accessed January 6, 2019.