Victor d'Arcy

Victor d'Arcy
Victor d'Arcy (l.) In the season finale of the 1912 Olympic Games
Full name	Victor Henry Augustus d'Arcy
nation	United Kingdom
birthday	June 30, 1887
place of birth	Rotherhithe,  United Kingdom
size	172 cm
Weight	63 kg
date of death	March 12, 1961
Place of death	Cape Town ,  South Africa
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	200 m: 21.6 s
society	Polytechnic Harriers London
Trainer	Sam Mussabini
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Stockholm 2012 4 × 100 m
last change: February 14, 2017

Victor d'Arcy ( Victor Henry Augustus "Vic" d'Arcy ; born June 30, 1887 in Rotherhithe, Greater London , † March 12, 1961 in South Africa ) was a British athlete and Olympic champion .

At the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912, he took part in both the 100- and 200-meter run , but was eliminated in the semifinals.

In the 4 x 100 meter relay , however, he won the gold medal, along with teammates David Jacobs , Henry Macintosh and Willie Applegarth . The team of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland benefited in both the semifinals and the finals from substitution errors made by its fiercest competitors, the United States and Germany .

At the Olympic Games in Antwerp in 1920 , d'Arcy reached the quarter-finals over 100 meters and was eliminated over 200 meters in the preliminary run. In the 4 x 100 meter relay, he and his teammates reached fourth place.

Web links

• Victor d'Arcy in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Victor d'Arcy in the trackfield.brinkster.net database , accessed on June 5, 2019.

Victor d'Arcy (left) and Harold Abrahams , 1920