Jackson Scholz

Jackson Scholz
Jackson Scholz 1928
Full name	Jackson Volney Scholz
nation	United States
birthday	March 15, 1897
place of birth	Buchanan
size	172 cm
Weight	61 kg
date of death	October 26, 1986
Place of death	Delray Beach
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	10.5 s ( 100 m ) / 21.2 s ( 200 m )
society	New York Athletic Club
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Antwerp 1920 4 × 100 m gold Paris 1924 200 m silver Paris 1924 100 m

Jackson Volney Scholz (born March 15, 1897 in Buchanan , Michigan , † October 26, 1986 in Delray Beach , Florida ) was an American athlete and Olympic champion .

Scholz studied at the University of Missouri . With his studies and the preparations for the Olympic Games he was busy, so that he only won one national championship title, in 1925 over 220 yards , during this time . He took part in the Olympic Games in 1920, 1924 and 1928.

At the VII Olympic Games in Antwerp in 1920 he won the team gold medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay together with his teammates Charles Paddock , Loren Murchison and Morris Kirksey , ahead of the teams from France (silver) and Sweden (bronze). In the same year, on September 6th in Stockholm, he set a new official world record with a time of 10.6 s over the 100-meter distance.

At the VIII Olympic Games in Paris in 1924 , he won the gold medal in the 200-meter run , ahead of the American Charles Paddock (silver) and the British Eric Liddell (bronze). He also won the silver medal in the 100-meter run behind the British Harold Abrahams (gold) and ahead of the New Zealander Arthur Porritt (bronze). During his participation in the IX. At the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam he started as a favorite, but could only achieve fourth place over 200 meters.

Web links

• Jackson Scholz in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Review - That was going on in sport ...", Sport-Bild from September 6, 1995, p. 44