Harry Hillman

Harry Hillman
Harry Hillman (1904)
Full name	Harry Livingston Hillman Jr.
nation	United States
birthday	September 8, 1881
place of birth	Brooklyn
size	180 cm
Weight	66 kg
date of death	August 9, 1945
Place of death	Hanover
Career
discipline	Sprint , hurdles
Medal table
Olympic games 3 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold St. Louis 1904 400 m gold St. Louis 1904 200 m hurdles gold St. Louis 1904 400 m hurdles silver London 1908 400 m hurdles

Harry Livingston Hillman Jr. (born September 8, 1881 in Brooklyn , New York , † August 9, 1945 in Hanover , New Hampshire ) was an American athlete and Olympic champion .

Hillman was a member of three Olympic teams at the turn of the century and coached at Dartmouth College in Hanover , New Hampshire . During his playing days he won four Amateur Athletic Union titles, two each over the 200 meter and 400 meter hurdles. From 1910 until his death he was a coach at Dartmouth College and coach of the Olympic athletics team in 1924, 1928 and 1932. One of his most outstanding athletes was Earl Thomson , gold medalist at the VII Olympic Games in Antwerp in 1920 .

With the III. At the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis Hillman won the gold medal in the 400-meter run ahead of the other two Americans Frank Waller and Herman Groman and the gold medal in the 200-meter hurdles , also ahead of two Americans, Frank Castleman and George Poage , as well as the gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles in front of the Americans Frank Waller and George Poage. At the IV Olympic Games in London in 1908 , he won the silver medal in the 400-meter hurdles behind the American Charles Bacon and the British Jimmy Tremeer .

reception

Harry Hillman is the namesake of the Swiss jazz band The Great Harry Hillman .

Web links

• Harry Hillman in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.thegreatharryhillman.ch. In: www.thegreatharryhillman.ch. Retrieved January 3, 2017 .