Martin Sheridan

Martin Sheridan
nation	United States
birthday	March 28, 1881
place of birth	Bohola ,  Ireland
size	190 cm
Weight	88 kg
date of death	March 27, 1918
Place of death	new York
Career
society	Irish American Athletic Club, Queens
Medal table
Olympic games 3 × 0 × 1 × Olympic Intermediate Games 2 × 3 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold St. Louis 1904 Discus throw gold London 1908 Discus throw gold London 1908 Classic discus throw bronze London 1908 Long jump from standing Olympic Intermediate Games gold Athens 1906 Shot put gold Athens 1906 Discus throw silver Athens 1906 High jump from a standing position silver Athens 1906 Long jump from standing silver Athens 1906 Stone throw

Martin John Sheridan (born March 28, 1881 in Bohola , County Mayo , Ireland , † March 27, 1918 in New York City ) was an American athlete .

Sheridan came to the United States from his native Ireland in 1897 at the age of 16 , where he joined the New York Police Department . He won the gold medal in the discus throw at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis . He was able to repeat the success four years later at the games in London . In London he also won gold in the "classic style discus throw" and bronze in the long jump from standing .

However, he was even more successful at the so-called interludes in Athens in 1906 . There he won the competitions in the shot put and discus throw and came second in the high jump from standing , long jump from standing and in weight throwing . He died at the age of 36 years at a pneumonia . In 1988 he was posthumously inducted into the "Hall of Fame" of the US Athletics Federation.

Web links

• Martin Sheridan in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Obituary in the New York Times of March 28, 1918 (English)
• Martin J. Sheridan: "A Peerless Athlete" (English)