Henry Hawtrey
Henry Courtenay Hawtrey (born June 29, 1882 in Southampton , † November 16, 1961 in Aldershot ) was a British athlete .
Hawtrey retired at the 1906 Olympic Intermediate Games in the 1500-meter run in the preliminary run. He won the 5-mile run in 26: 11.8 minutes.
Hawtrey was a member of the British Army from 1900 to 1934, served for many years in Africa and India and rose to brigadier . When war broke out in 1939, he returned to the army. In 1942 he finally retired.
5 mile run
While the Olympic Games from 1896 to 1904 did not run a distance between 1,500 meters and a marathon , the 1906 Intermediate Games and the 1908 Olympic Games hosted a 5-mile run, which corresponds to a metric distance of 8046.57 meters . From the Olympic Games in 1912, the 5000-meter run and the 10,000-meter run were held.
swell
- Ian Buchanan: British Olympians , London 1991, ISBN 0-85112-952-8
- 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
- Henry Hawtrey in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hawtrey, Henry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hawtrey, Henry Courtenay (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Southampton |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 1961 |
| Place of death | Aldershot |