Meredith Colket
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Meredith Bright Colket (born November 19, 1878 in Philadelphia ( Pennsylvania ), † June 7, 1947 , Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania)) was an American athlete and medalist at the Olympic Games .
Colket had since 1897 a student at the University of Pennsylvania , where 1904 he graduated as a lawyer gained. During this time he was a member of the student fraternity FIJI (Phi Gamma Delta) , to which his fellow student George Orton also belonged. In terms of sport, Colket was mainly a tennis player. He made up for his lack of talent for this with fighting strength.
However, Colket achieved his greatest sporting success in another sport, the pole vault . At the Summer Olympics in Paris in 1900 , he finished second behind his compatriot and fellow student Irving Baxter . However, he owed his good placement to the fact that several of the best pole vaulters of the time did not take part in the competition because the competition originally planned for Saturday had been postponed to Sunday. The three strictly religious pole vaulters Charles Dvorak , Bascom Johnson and Daniel Horton , whose religion forbade any sport on a Sunday, decided not to participate. They easily won two competitions for revenge held in the following days.
The placements at the Olympic Games for Meredith Bright Colket:
- II. Summer Olympics 1900, Paris
- Pole vault - silver with 3.25 m (gold to Irving Baxter , USA with 3.30 m; bronze to Carl Albert Andersen , NOR with 3.20 m)
The success in Paris did not have much influence on Colket's sporting orientation. He still preferred to devote himself to tennis, was the student champion in doubles in 1903 and helped his university to the championship in 1904.
After completing his sporting career, he worked as an agent for the General Accident Insurance Company. He died of a heart attack in 1947.
His son of the same name (Meredith Bright Colket Jr., 1912–1985) made a name for himself as a genealogist .
literature
- Bill Mallon / Ian Buchanan: Quest for Gold , New York City 1984 ISBN 0-88011-217-4
Web links
- Meredith Colket in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Colket, Meredith |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Colket, Meredith Bright (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 1947 |
| Place of death | Bryn Mawr |