Guy Butler

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Guy Butler, 1926

Guy Butler ( Guy Montagu Butler ; born August 25, 1899 in Harrow , London , † February 22, 1981 in St Neots , Cambridgeshire ) was a British sprinter and Olympic champion .

In 1919 he won the British AAA Championships over 440 yards and in 1926 over 220 yards. He also set a world record of 30.6 seconds over 300 yards that year. Having won four Olympic medals, he holds this record together with Sebastian Coe .

At the Olympic Games in Antwerp in 1920 he won the silver medal in the 400-meter run behind the South African Bevil Rudd (gold) and ahead of the Swede Nils Engdahl (bronze). He also won the team gold medal in the 4 x 400 meter relay , together with his teammates Cecil Griffiths , Robert Lindsay and John Ainsworth-Davis , ahead of the teams from South Africa (silver) and France (bronze). At the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924 Butler won the bronze medal in the 400 meters, behind the Briton Eric Liddell (gold) and the American Horatio Fitch (silver) and the team bronze medal in the 4 x 400 meter relay, together with his teammates Edward Toms , George Renwick and Richard Ripley , behind the teams from the United States (gold) and from Sweden (silver). He also competed at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, but did not get beyond seventh place in the quarter-finals in the 200-meter run .

After his sporting career, Butler worked as a teacher in a school, then as a sports journalist and was one of the film pioneers of athletes in action.

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SURNAME Butler, guy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Butler, Guy Montagu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British athlete
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Harrow
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1981
Place of death St Neots