Charles Bacon
Brooklyn, New York | |||||||||||||||
| Died | November 15, 1968 (aged 83) Fort Lauderdale, Florida | ||||||||||||||
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| Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 170 lb (77 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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Charles James Bacon Jr. (January 9, 1885 – November 15, 1968) was an American
athlete and a member of the Irish American Athletic Club and the New York City Police Department. He won the 400 metres hurdles at the 1908 Summer Olympics.[1]
He was born in
Brooklyn, New York and died in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
.
At the 1904 Summer Olympics he finished ninth in the 1500 metres event.
Two years later at the
800 metres event
.
Just a month and a half before the
400 metre hurdles
.
At the Olympic Games in 1908, he and fellow American
IAAF, thus Bacon became the first world record holder in the 400 metres hurdles. The same year, Bacon set the world record for the 440 yards, 10 hurdles, 3 feet 6 inches at Celtic Park, Queens, New York, the home of the Irish American Athletic Club on October 11, 1908.[2]
Notes
- ^ "Charles Bacon". Olympedia. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
- ^ 1910 Mecca Cigarettes Champion Athlete and Prize Fighter Series trading card.
References
- Cook, Theodore Andrea (May 1909). The Fourth Olympiad London 1908 Official Report (PDF). London: British Olympic Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2008-12-29.
- De Wael, Herman (2001). "Athletics 1908". Herman's Full Olympians. Archived from the original on 2006-09-27. Retrieved 2008-12-29.
- Greenberg, Stan (1987). Olympic Games: The Records. London: Guinness Books. ISBN 0-85112-896-3.
- Kieran, John (1977). The Story of the Olympic Games; 776 B.C. to 1976. Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company. ISBN 0-397-01168-7.
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