Marcus Hurley

Marcus Hurley

Marcus Hurley (1904)
To person
Full name	Marcus Latimer Hurley
Date of birth	December 22, 1883
date of death	March 28, 1941
nation	United States
discipline	train
Most important successes
Olympic games Olympic champion ¼ mile 1904 Olympic champion ⅓ mile 1904 Olympic champion ½ mile 1904 Olympic champion 1 mile 1904 Olympic Knight 2 miles 1904 World championships World champion amateurs track bike sprint 1904

Marcus Latimer Hurley (born December 22, 1883 in New Rochelle , New York , † March 28, 1941 in New York City ) was an American track cyclist and basketball player .

At the age of 17, Hurley became American amateur sprint champion and defended that title for three years. At the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis , he won gold medals in sprint races over a quarter mile, a third mile , a half mile and a mile. In the two-mile race, he finished third. Also in 1904 he was sprint world champion in London .

By 1908, Hurley also played basketball for the New York Athletic Club and Columbia University . Hurley lived in New York City and was an engineer by profession .

Web links

Commons : Marcus Hurley  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• US Bicycling Hall of Fame
• Marcus Hurley in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )