Henry Macintosh

Henry Macintosh
Henry Macintosh (right) as a member of the victorious 1912 sprint relay
Full name	Henry Maitland Macintosh
nation	United Kingdom
birthday	June 10, 1892
place of birth	Kelso ,  United Kingdom
size	173 cm
Weight	66 kg
date of death	July 26, 1918
Place of death	Albert ,  France
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	100 m: 10.7 s 200 m: 22.1 s
society	University of Cambridge
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Stockholm 2012 4 × 100 m
last change: February 13, 2017

Henry Macintosh (born June 10, 1892 in Kelso , Scotland , † July 26, 1918 in Albert (Somme) , France ) was a British athlete and Olympic champion .

At the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912, he took part in both the 100-meter run and the 200-meter run , but was eliminated in the semifinals. In the 4 x 100 meter relay , however, he won the gold medal, along with his teammates David Jacobs , Victor d'Arcy and Willie Applegarth . The team of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland benefited in both the semifinals and the finals from substitution errors made by its fiercest competitors, the United States and Germany .

Henry Macintosh died at the age of 26 from an injury, which he introduced to the fighting in the First World War has contracted.

Web links

• Henry Macintosh in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Henry Macintosh, 1913