James Wedderburn (athlete)
James Wedderburn (born June 23, 1938 in Barbados ) is a Barbadian 400-meter runner who competed for the West Indian Federation at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome .
In the 400-meter run he was second in the first run in 47.4 seconds behind the eventual Olympic champion Otis Davis . In the intermediate run, Wedderburn finished fourth in 47.0 seconds behind Jack Yerman , Kevan Gosper and Manfred Kinder .
The four-by-400-meter relay of the West Indian Federation with Malcolm Spence , Wedderburn, Keith Gardner and George Kerr won the run-up in 3: 09.1 minutes. In the intermediate run, the relay took second place behind the US relay in 3: 09.2 minutes; in the final, the relay won the bronze medal behind the US and German relay teams in 3: 04.0 minutes.
nationality
The West Indian Federation team participated in the 1960 Olympics only. Jamaican sprinters had won Olympic medals before and after, sprinters from Trinidad and Tobago were also quite successful, while the list of Olympic medalists from Barbados only shows Obadele Thompson .
In Olympic medal tables across all games, attempts are made again and again to combine countries that existed in the past with those that exist today. This is relatively easy when countries have merged, but it often becomes complicated when countries have split.
The nationality of the West Indian Federation squadron is difficult to divide into today's nationalities. In Kingston -born George Kerr and Keith Gardner are all sources unanimously called Jamaican. Malcolm Spence is mostly referred to as a Jamaican, occasionally he is also assigned to Trinidad. With James Wedderburn, things are even more complicated. He was either born in Barbados or his parents were from there. He lived in Barbados or Trinidad in 1960. Kamper and Mallon classify Wedderburn as Barbados athletes. Wallechinsky says: “Wedderburn was from Barbados; the rest of the relay team was from Jamaica. "(Translation: Wedderburn came from Barbados; the rest of the relay was from Jamaica.) Volker Kluge, however, writes about the 14 members of the West Indian Federation team:" Eight athletes were from Jamaica, six of Trinidad and Tobago. Barbados had no active on the team. "
It remains to be noted: Malcolm Spence, James Wedderburn, Keith Gardner and George Kerr jointly won an Olympic bronze medal for the West Indian Federation.
literature
- Erich Kamper , Bill Mallon : Who's Who of the Olympic Games 1896–1992. Who's Who at the Olympics. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1992, ISBN 3-928562-47-9 .
- Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .
- Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996. Track and Field Athletics. Berlin 1999 (published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV )
- David Wallechinsky: The Complete Book of the Olympics. London 1996, ISBN 1-85410-400-4
Footnotes
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wedderburn, James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Barbadian athlete of the West Indian Federation |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barbados |