Frank Irons

Frank Irons (actually: Francis Cleveland Irons ; born March 23, 1886 in Des Moines , Iowa , † June 19, 1942 in Palatine , Illinois ) was an American athlete . With a height of 1.67 m, his competition weight was 59 kg.

At the Olympic Games in 1908 , Irons competed in four disciplines. In the standing long jump , the position is not known, in the standing high jump he took eighth place with several others with 1.42 meters. In the triple jump , Irons was sixteenth with 12.67 meters. In the long jump he finally won gold with 7.48 meters and almost forty centimeters ahead of second.

At the Olympic Games in 1912 , Irons was only active in the long jump. With 6.80 meters he took ninth place. Since Jim Thorpe , who placed seventh, was subsequently disqualified, Irons was listed as eighth from 1913. Thorpe's 1982 rehabilitation officially only affected his two gold medals.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .
• 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

• Frank Irons in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )