Jessie Pollock

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Jessie Pollock
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Archery

United StatesUnited States United States
Olympic Summer Games
gold 1904 St. Louis Team Round
bronze 1904 St. Louis Double National Round
bronze 1904 St. Louis Double Columbia Round

Jean "Jessie" Pollock or Lida Peyton "Eliza" Pollock (born October 24, 1840 in Hamilton , Ohio , † May 25, 1919 in Wyoming , Ohio) was an American archer .

Pollock successfully took part in the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis , where she both came third behind Lida Howell and Emma Cooke and thus achieved the bronze medal. In the Team Round she was superior to the competitors with the Cincinnati Archers ; this “gold medal” is not always officially counted.

Footnotes

  1. In 1997 by Volker Kluge published book Olympische Sommerspiele. The Chronicle I. and in 2004 by Karl Lennartz published work , the Games of the III. 1904 Olympics in St. Louis. the archer is called Jessie Pollock. The first name Eliza has been on the Sports-Reference website, which is managed by Bill Mallon , among others .

literature

  • Volker Kluge: Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .
  • Karl Lennartz: The games of the III. 1904 Olympics in St. Louis. AGON Sportverlag. Kassel 2004. ISBN 3-89784-259-9 .

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